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Re:Apple wins the antitrust court battle with Epic Games, co... by lapcat on Monday April 24, 2023 @09:57PM (#35695705)
> What do you suggest we do over this ?

Break it up! That's what you do with monopolies. That's what they did with Standard Oil. That's what they did with AT&T. That's what they talked about doing and should have done with Microsoft.

> but the trouble come if a company uses their position to gain an unfair advantage

Google has leveraged its search dominance to gain dominance in a number of other areas too. For example, whenever I do a Google Search in Safari (without my content blocking extensions running), I see a big popup that says "Google recommends using Chrome". That's an abuse of power. (And naturally, Google is the default search engine of Google Chrome).

Google AMP is an abuse of power, forcing websites to redesign themselves specifically for Google, on penalty of lower search ranking.

I've already mentioned how the two duopolists colluding is an abuse of power.

Google has been accused by Mozilla of systematically sabotaging Firefox in various ways, for example on YouTube.

The list goes on and on.

Re:Apple wins the antitrust court battle with Epic Games, co... by miahi on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @01:52AM (#35696955)
MS is still "the best" in this case. Searching for Firefox on a fresh Windows install (with Edge) will show Chrome and Opera as first two options (keyword ads), then Firefox. And then, when you download the Firefox installer, you are announced that it could harm your device.
Re:Apple wins the antitrust court battle with Epic Games, co... by hardware2win on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @04:15AM (#35697833)
>And then, when you download the Firefox installer, you are announced that it could harm your device.

Is it actually true?

Re:Apple wins the antitrust court battle with Epic Games, co... by bayindirh on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @04:46AM (#35698016)
Yes.