Comment on Microsoft’s Nadella to Testify at Google Antitrust Trial Monday - Bloomberg
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 year agoSafari 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.