fossilesque@mander.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours agoGoogle must sell Chrome to end search monopoly, justice department argues in court filingwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1354
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minus-squareTakumidesh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·13 hours agoWhy does it need to be sold to another big company, why can’t they just break Google up so chrome becomes its own business?
minus-squarejol@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·4 hours agoChrome by itself would likely cost 100 billion dollars to sell, and then more to maintain, without any clear revenue except selling user data. Chrome is not a profitable product on its own. Not many companies can afford that.
minus-squareNιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 hours agoWell shucks, I guess it should just be made fully open source, the code distributed, and the business dissolved. Womp wooomp.
Why does it need to be sold to another big company, why can’t they just break Google up so chrome becomes its own business?
Chrome by itself would likely cost 100 billion dollars to sell, and then more to maintain, without any clear revenue except selling user data. Chrome is not a profitable product on its own. Not many companies can afford that.
Well shucks, I guess it should just be made fully open source, the code distributed, and the business dissolved. Womp wooomp.