The "Splitting off Chrome or Android would break them" claim doesn't add up: DOJ isn't proposing that directly, and no, I don't take it as a given that this is

The "Splitting off Chrome or Android would break them" claim doesn't add up: DOJ isn't proposing that directly, and no, I don't take it as a given that this is the plan or somehow implied when DOJ cites default search in Chrome as a monopoly practice: there are any number of remedies one can imagine, and DOJ isn't specific about what they intend here. Because of course they aren't. I'd love to see that, however. The browser is the single most important form of software that exists today. It's more important than operating systems. It's important enough that it would be generally better if people paid for browser licenses from developers that earned their money selling licenses, as opposed to ads. Is that in scope or a likely outcome of this case? No. Not even close. So I don't expect much from any of this.