2y ago

Google antitrust trial: Tech giant denies abusing power to gain monopoly - BBC News

www.bbc.com /news/business-66790608

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2y ago

Google antitrust trial: Tech giant denies abusing power to gain monopoly - BBC News

www.bbc.com /news/business-66790608

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Isn't seeking a monopoly going to be the goal of any large company?
- It is, and that's why antitrust laws are necessary.
  
  And enforcement!
If you aren't then why do websites of other tech giants tell me I need chrome or chromium to run them when they work perfectly fine on firefox with a chrome user agent?
- That's not on Google though, that's on the makers of those websites for not wanting to test and support other browsers. Still shitty behaviour, but not googles shitty behaviour.
  
  You can't tell me Google had nothing to do with Apple trying to force me onto chrome. It says chrome, why not Safari?
- Like which? I haven't seen a message like that for 5 years, maybe 10.
  We'll, except maybe shitty corporate sites or applications, but usually those are telling me I need IE 6 or above, FF 1.x or above, etc.
  
  Apple Business Manager is the one I deal with daily that does that
Well they weren't going to admit it...
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Judge Amit Mehta, who was appointed to his position on DC district court by former president Barack Obama, will decide the case - the biggest for the industry in 25 years.
The government's lawsuit focuses on billions of payments Google has made to Apple, Samsung, Mozilla and others to be pre-installed as the default online search engine.
The US said Google typically pays more than $10bn a year for that privilege, securing its access to a steady gush of user data that helped maintain its hold on the market.
But by 2005, worried about its lead eroding, Google proposed to pay the company - later threatening to cancel payments if other firms got similar access, the government said.
Google said it faced intense competition, not just from general search engine firms, such as Microsoft's Bing, but more specialised sites and apps that people use to find restaurants, airline flights and more.
"There are lots of ways users access the web, other than through default search engines, and people use them all the time," the company's lawyer, John Schmidtlein, said.
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