What’s up with Firefox?

Re:What’s up with Firefox? by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @02:48PM (#13485290)

Google has an incredible amount of money invested in our federal government here in the US. Including at least one former FTC Commissioner in their pocket. :)

Competition watchdogs in almost every other first world country, however, are investigating Google for various antitrust claims.

Apple doesn't get a lot of scrutiny from competition watchdogs because they aren't a monopoly anywhere. Heck, outside the US, the iPhone has a pretty tiny market share.

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Re:What’s up with Firefox? by sangnoir on Thursday January 26, 2017 @04:00AM (#13489829)

Google spent $0/year lobbying until Microsoft and the "Fair search" coalition did a lot of anti-Google lobbying in the US and the EU. They also didn't start building up a patent warchest until they were involved in a patent thermonuclear war.

I don't find patents or lobbyists particularly agreeable - but for an organization of a certain size to go without them in the 21st century is likely a very expensive strategic error.

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Re:What’s up with Firefox? by ocdtrekkie on Thursday January 26, 2017 @01:54PM (#13494125)

Google's PAC, NetPAC, well predates the formation of FairSearch, by at least two years.

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