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In your opinion, would spinning off Chrome into its own company under Alphabet be a possible solution?
by Andrex 9y ago
In your opinion, would spinning off Chrome into its own company under Alphabet be a possible solution?
- hyperdimension 9y agoNot OP, but that seems strange to me. Chrome is a product, not really a business. I can't see any way for them to make money, besides maybe enterprise deployments.
- wmf 9y agoIf Firefox makes $500M per year from search referrals, Chrome could make over $1B. Chrome would be very profitable as an independent company.
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoNo, because Alphabet is still Google. A layer of shell companies doesn't change anything. Chrome (and Android, probably) should be forcibly split off from anything to do with Google/Alphabet, as fully independent companies. Any collusion between them and Google should be illegal. ^- This is breaking up an illegal monopoly. Shuffling around which division owned by Larry Page and Sergey Brin it is is not.