and android… right? RIGHT??
Android would be unprofitable and unsustainable in isolation. So that would leave each OEM to build their own thing, but to make a long story short, everybody would just get an iPhone. So then I wonder, if making such a ruling would create the void for a monopoly, what’s the sense?
Deal.
Lets get a whole bunch of different OS. That compete with each other.
What do you mean by “get”? Who will be funding the creation of all these OSes? The phone margins are already razor thin.
Preferably something open source that fuckin corpos can’t gatekeep and control.
Android is already largely open source. Yet it takes a massive investment from Google to continue developing it and curate the app store with it.
I’m genuinely struggling to envision how we move from the current situation to a somehow better but more fragmented ecosystem that doesn’t negatively affect consumer experiences. Whichever way I’ve approached it, it plays in the favor of one company in particular who already has a leading market share in the US, and I truly don’t see how that would be better.
Sadly the failure is a governmental one. Not on any of us.
We have monopoly laws. Mechanisms to break them up. But they generally aren’t enforced. It happens occasionally but almost never on the size of company that it was made to be used on.
Because Tim Cook gave Trump a trophy.
outdated news from may 2nd, in fact today a judge ruled that google won’t have to sell chrome or android, and they can keep paying mozilla/apple for being the default search engine
BUT, they will have to share search data publicly, and the default search engine deals can’t be exclusive anymore
Google bribes trump, agrees to place pro-trump search results higher. Nothing happens to Google.
Google has said it didn’t maintain a monopoly through such agreements and that consumers could change their device defaults to use other search engines.
It’s not complete truth. I use librewolf because you can set search engine to custom. In chrome you can only pick from predefined. With this fact Google controls it’s competition. You can’t compete with monopoly by being invisible because they always watch you.
What would happen if you disabled all connections on a Tesla? Or put it in some kind of Faraday cage? Would it just shut itself down, or would it keep running in its current state?
