Why stop at chrome. Break off Android too. They are shitting all over that now.
this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2025
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Separate Apple software and silicon as well. Break them all up! But honestly to I'd rather them start with our food system. Break up the conglomerates, break up the grocery stores, etc.... I can live if I don't buy a new phone or use Google search or Chrome.
Separate the media portions of these companies as well; apple and amazon music, tv, streaming into separate entities.
Don’t simply allow them to be purchased by another huge conglomerate or corporation like perplexity or openai, split them into their own entities. Stop companies purchasing each other to avoid this mess from repeating and avoid monopolies
Or just nationalize these companies. Trump already started the process with intel
A 10% stake with no board representation or even the option to influence the makeup of the board is hardly a step towards nationalization. The US is just along for the ride even if they drive it off a cliff.
Break up the big farms! One company shouldn't be allowed to own more than one,t if even one!
because perplexity or anthropic buying android would be even worse.
Once. Just once I want to have a happy thought to creep into my mind instead of this hell of probability. As example. Valve buys Android and runs their steamOS through it.
Valve could do that today already for free. Why would they pay for it instead?
would a new owner make it better? they would need to be profitable somehow, especially if they are not using it to sell pixel phones
and android.. right? RIGHT??
Please. PLEEEEEEEEASE!
The problem is that I feel android being sold would give it to a closed source entity. Ideally, a judge would make it so AOSP goes to a nonprofit governing body independent of any corporation, but I have a strong feeling that is not what will happen (in the US).
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.
News from The Government!
Going forward you can now only search and browse the web by mail!
Isn't that great?
Some guy in the government.... I got another request for titties. Have we organized the titties files yet? The request is pretty clear... Larger than C cup but smaller than triple D.
"Sorry, we've all looked through those files a lot but no one has had time to alphabetize them yet!"
Are you feeling lucky? Here is a bunch of random stuff regarding the term tits:
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?