Comment on Microsoft’s Nadella to Testify at Google Antitrust Trial Monday - Bloomberg
bamboo@lemm.ee 1 year agoI doubt a a court would care about a browser engine monopoly. They’re more concerned with markets and money, not with technical implementation details or open standards. Besides, even if that were to happen, google can point to Safari which is a different implementation with a very large market share.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Safari is locked behind Apple devices so it’s irrelevant outside that particular garden. The most they could use the Safari argument for is to say Google doesn’t have a monopoly on Apple devices.
bamboo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
In the US, it seems that courts do not care about “on Apple devices”. They see two markets: mobile devices, and laptops/desktops. Blink based browsers make up a minority in the US on mobile devices due to the dominance of Apple, and while they do have the majority on desktops/laptops, Safari is still double digits and Firefox has a small slice of the pie as well. Even if that was enough, there would still need to be evidence that this is due to anti-competitive measures and not true user preference. This will be hard because Microsoft isn’t publicly being compensated for choosing Blink for edge, nor does google have any wide-scale measures to coerce users onto chrome other than marketing in their own products and services.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 year ago
You reckon the DoJ may have started the trial without the necessary evidence?
bamboo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The current trial is about google’s monopoly on search, not browser engines.