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Isn’t Apple selling the default search spot to Google already collusion to prevent entrance of new competitors?

• coldtea 6y ago
  Not in any possible interpretation of the situation... For one, the user can change the default search spot. Second, selling it doesn't have any difference that having it just be Google (without money changing hands) Third, why did some upcoming challenger overbid Google for that spot and they were rejected?
  • darkwater 6y ago
    Your first point was already clarly rebutted by the EU in the Internet Explorer case.
    • jaegerpicker 6y ago
      No it wasn't, that was Microsoft defaulting to it's own browser. Using it's market dominance to give another of it's products an unfair advantage. If Apple made a search engine and defaulted to that engine it would be the same. Exactly how Google does on Android. That should fall under the exact same area as IE did.
• tchalla 6y ago
  Here's an implication of your collusion comment. If a default spot is sold to an organisation with highest market share, it is collusion. Can you imagine scenarios in which this implication wouldn't be true?
  • solosoyokaze 6y ago
    It's not just an organization with the highest market share. It's an organization that has the only competing web browser and mobile platform. Apple and Google collude because it gives them 100% control over mobile and the web.
• solosoyokaze 6y ago
  Yes, and they have a long history of colluding, including artificially suppressing engineering salaries. https://time.com/76655/google-apple-settle-wage-fixing-lawsuit/ https://time.com/76655/google-apple-settle-wage-fixing-lawsu...