Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet

Re:Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet by KorematsuFred on Sunday October 25, 2020 @04:52PM (#24889787)

> preventing Google from entering into deals like the one it made with Apple,

Be careful what you ask for. If you make such deals illegal, Apple will have to set Google as search engine for FREE thus benefiting Google.

As a non-murican it baffles me that US government will try to hurt its own successful companies in this fashion which smells of incompetence and political vendetta rather than genuine concern for the health of search ecosystem.

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Re:Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet by AnthonyMouse on Sunday October 25, 2020 @08:43PM (#24891640)

Presumably it would only be Google prevented from entering into such agreements, since nobody else has a dominant market position in search.

The interesting question then would be whether Apple would take somebody else's money and change the default search engine on their devices. Which might net them almost as much money, but might also irritate a lot of their users if the highest bidder isn't as good of a search engine.

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Re:Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet by FpUser on Sunday October 25, 2020 @05:39PM (#24890130)

Companies like Google are starting to have way too much influence on government. Government does not like it at all so they'll take measures to curb the influence one or the other way.

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