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It is not as simple as you make it out to be. United States v. Microsoft Corporation, 253 F.3d 34 (D.C. Cir. 2001),[1] was a noted American antitrust law case

It is not as simple as you make it out to be. United States v. Microsoft Corporation, 253 F.3d 34 (D.C. Cir. 2001),[1] was a noted American antitrust law case in which the U.S. government accused Microsoft of illegally maintaining its monopoly position in the PC market primarily through the legal and technical restrictions it put on the abilities of PC manufacturers (OEMs) and users to uninstall Internet Explorer and use other programs such as Netscape and Java [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

theturtletalks 7y ago
“The issue central to the case was whether Microsoft was allowed to bundle its flagship Internet Explorer (IE) web browser software with its Windows operating system. Bundling them is alleged to have been responsible for Microsoft's victory in the browser wars as every Windows user had a copy of IE. It was further alleged that this restricted the market for competing web browsers (such as Netscape Navigator or Opera), since it typically took a while to download or purchase such software at a store.” How is different than what Chromebook does? Or what Google does bundling Google search with Chrome as the default search engine?
- jdietrich 7y ago
  >How is different than what Chromebook does? Or what Google does bundling Google search with Chrome as the default search engine? ChromeOS doesn't have a dominant position in the operating systems market, so there's no case to answer - you can't exploit dominance that you don't have. Android does have a dominant position in the mobile OS market, so Google are being forced to unbundle Chrome and Google Search from Android. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/technology/google-eu-android-fine.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/technology/google-eu-andr...
  - theturtletalks 7y ago
    The EU forced them to unbundle, not the US. We’re discussing US anti-trust cases which Google has not faced after years on dominance. And regardless, it’s too late. Google has already established dominance so unbundling now won’t stop people from downloading Chrome on Android. And how are they unbundling google search when it’s built into their voice search and google assistant?

theturtletalks 7y ago

“The issue central to the case was whether Microsoft was allowed to bundle its flagship Internet Explorer (IE) web browser software with its Windows operating system. Bundling them is alleged to have been responsible for Microsoft's victory in the browser wars as every Windows user had a copy of IE. It was further alleged that this restricted the market for competing web browsers (such as Netscape Navigator or Opera), since it typically took a while to download or purchase such software at a store.” How is different than what Chromebook does? Or what Google does bundling Google search with Chrome as the default search engine?

jdietrich 7y ago
>How is different than what Chromebook does? Or what Google does bundling Google search with Chrome as the default search engine? ChromeOS doesn't have a dominant position in the operating systems market, so there's no case to answer - you can't exploit dominance that you don't have. Android does have a dominant position in the mobile OS market, so Google are being forced to unbundle Chrome and Google Search from Android. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/technology/google-eu-android-fine.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/technology/google-eu-andr...
- theturtletalks 7y ago
  The EU forced them to unbundle, not the US. We’re discussing US anti-trust cases which Google has not faced after years on dominance. And regardless, it’s too late. Google has already established dominance so unbundling now won’t stop people from downloading Chrome on Android. And how are they unbundling google search when it’s built into their voice search and google assistant?