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🏛️ Google is facing an antitrust case from the Department of Justice concerning its Chrome browser and its market dominance.
얽 Google argues that Chrome’s features, like Safe Browsing, are deeply integrated with Google’s shared infrastructure and cannot be easily separated or replicated by another company.
⚠️ A potential forced divestiture of Chrome could significantly diminish its functionality and value, potentially leading to its decline, according to the testimony and analysis presented.
@bernardodegarcia:
“Google. Its shares are up practically nothing, 0.005% right now. It’s the only company that can offer the level of features and functionality that its popular web browser has today, given its interdependencies on other parts of the unit, testified the director of Chrome. ‘Chrome represents 17 years of collaboration between the Chrome team and the rest of Google,’ said Parisa Tabris, general manager of the browser, last Friday as part of the Department of Justice’s antitrust case. ‘Trying to untangle this is unprecedented.’ Some of the product features, like its Safe Browsing mode or a system that notifies users if their password has been compromised, depend on Google’s shared infrastructure, not just within Chrome’s scope, she said. ‘I don’t think it can be recreated in another company,’ she concluded. A quite interesting case, but I suppose the Department of Justice in this case will say, ‘Ah, I don’t care, sell it anyway.’ Obviously, this will be much cheaper. Ah, it won’t be Chrome. Chrome ends up disappearing, and it will be another case, another tremendous success by the Department of Justice that will end up killing, right? Another company, I don’t think Google will end up being killed, but Chrome will end up being killed in this case, in my opinion.”
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