Google’s a monopoly, so now what?
  • EnderMB@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    44 minutes ago

    While I do think that many of these companies need regulation, I think it would be very easy for many of them to cut off a finger or two to save the body, especially when you factor in that many departments of these companies either operate at a loss, or are in positions where they are losing market share.

    For Google, losing Chrome would do very little for them. Fill the board with several execs, and it’ll be Google-aligned for the next decade or so. They could also kill off Music, Docs, Fit, Pay, Keep, almost a dozen products that could either be killed or spun off into separate businesses. The same goes for Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, countless businesses that have a finger in a lot of pies.

    • misk@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      4·
      19 minutes ago

      There’s so much to chop off there. They’re an ad monopolist, cut that. Their YouTube business is self sufficient, cut that. Android and Play Store? Chop chop chop. Cloud Services? Chainsaw goes wrrr. Google, Chrome and assorted services could stay with Google for brand recognition. All of them would be still very big and dangerously influential.

    • thirteene@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      28 minutes ago

      At&t/pacbell basically just kept recombining after being repeatedly broken apart. The market is broken, not the company.

  • ihatetheworldEnglish
    58·
    8 hours ago

    Changes to the online advertising market would make online ads less valuable for publishers and merchants, and less useful for consumers.

    If by useful they meant anything that is heavily promoted by Google ads get added on the ‘will not touch with a 10 foot pole’ list. Sure, I guess?

    Also hinting at changing their business models, raise the cost of devices, should chrome or android be forced to break up.

    Google blog response is exactly why this breakup should happen. They are getting out of control.