I think the spirit of the antitrust laws was to prevent the stifling of competition using monopoly power. Microsoft was definitely doing that when they threate

I think the spirit of the antitrust laws was to prevent the stifling of competition using monopoly power. Microsoft was definitely doing that when they threaten to charge OEMs more if they bundled Netscape Navigator - OEMs couldn’t say “no” to Microsoft due to their desktop OS monopoly; it would be the end of their business. In Google’s case, I find it hard to see how they are stifling the competition. Blowing your vast capital to improve your product is not anticompetitive - it’s unfair but it’s not anticompetitive. Designing your products to advantage your other products, again, it’s unfair but it isn’t anticompetitive IMHO - competition isn’t being stifled; must every company make sure their products benefit their competitors’s as much as their own before they are allowed to release it? The courts will have to be very careful. Their ruling in this case will set a precedent and in the future other companies can get hit by the same logic they use against Google if they convict. I don’t like Google’s de facto control of the web and their attempt to kill JPEGXL in favor of their own formats, AVIF and WebP. JPEGXL is the superior format and they should support it but they aren’t obligated to. It makes them a prick but being a prick isn’t illegal. We can still hate their guts though.