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Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome by eru on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @04:14AM (#42181409)
60% market share is big, but it's not a monopoly. Even 85% ain't.
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Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome by rrr_oh_man on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @04:44AM (#42181625)
Don't get so hung up on semantics.

Quote: The Supreme Court has defined (...) monopoly power as "the power to control prices or exclude competition".

[https://www.justice.gov/archives/atr/competition-and-monopol...]

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Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome by eru on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @05:34AM (#42181952)
They don't exclude any competition, and, well, browsers and web searches are free.
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Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome by nfw2 on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @01:48PM (#42186815)
to be fair, free is a price, and one that is very hard to compete with, at that
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Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome by eru on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @08:15PM (#42189875)
Sure, but it's hard to argue that customers are overcharged by the alleged monopoly.
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