Google is going to be broken up like Standard Oil and the Bell Corporation...

Google is going to be broken up like Standard Oil and the Bell Corporation. Time for some actual competition in search and maps

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Being's fine and maps has been shit since moot ruined it (based)

What does Google have a monopoly on exactly?

They have monopoly powers over browsers due to chromium and chrome's market share. They have monopoly powers in the advertising business. They have monopoly powers in search engines

Search
Browsers
Advertising
Android
Youtube

Would this be good news or bad news for software developers? Another entity to compete for software devs so higher salaries?

Search: Bing, DuckduckGo, Yandex
Browsers: Edge and Firefox
Advertising: Facebook
Phones: Apple
Video: Instagram, Facebook

>Internet Explorer: Netscape
You should probably learn how anti-trust works, because the existence of much smaller competitors doesn't prevent something from legally being a monopoly, bootlicker.

Microsoft is a bigger company than Google.

If you're a time traveler from 1997, maybe.

Google makes 1/3 the revenue of Microsoft.

Do you know what monopoly powers mean? Just look at market shares for each market you listed and you'll see that Google has the dominant share by a wide margin. I'll help you:
gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide
gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share
datanyze.com/market-share/online-video

Advertising is the only market where you could argue that Google doesn't have monopoly powers.

Only real 4gaggers will get this post

That's worldwide, not US.

Microsoft's revenue is all in Office licenses. How exactly does that make them competitive anywhere else?

Google runs the biggest search engine, BY FAR

Google owns the largest internet browser, BY FAR

Google owns the largest advertising platform BY FAR

Google controls the OS on most of the smartphones in the west, BY FAR

Google owns the largest amateur video hosting platform on the internet, BY FAR

But none of those are a monopoly because Microsoft Excel exists. Cool story.

How can you have a monopoly on free software? Literally anybody can make what they make if they really wanted to
It just so happens chrome is the best browser and maps is the best map service. It literally does not make sense to me.

>start a company
>star making a product
>product is good
>company is doing well
>"stop, we can not allow it as it is unfair to others making shittier products"

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>Literally anybody can make what they make if they really wanted to
If you want to get sued for intellectual property infringement sure. Here in the real world though, large companies have teams of lawyers keeping you from "stealing" their products. You'll have to buy your own just to argue against them.

so is OP, if he seriously expects anything from this investigation

>get a bunch of money from DARPA
>take over the World Wide Web
>trade a bunch of employees with the Obama administration for sweet White House access
>have a bunch of latte-sipping San Francisco bootlickers defend you as a "natural monopoly" for free

niggers

>mention that Google isn't even a real private company but actually just another tentacle of the intelligence sector and the military industrial complex
>time to move this conversation to a new thread!
Sometimes it's remarkable how fucking co-opted this "community" is.

Cool. Bag Google shares now; then when they split you get shares in all those new companies to

>Yes goyim, put your money in the stock market!

>be google
>make good search engine
>start making money
>start buying every competitor
>end up buying half of the internet

>be ms
>make good contract with ibm
>start making money
>start blocking other s/w vendors
>end up forcing your products to customers

>be jew
>make hi5/myspace/etc clone
>idiots accumulate
>more idiots come
>start buying competitors
>start buying messaging startups
>end up owning the other half of the internet

you do understand that those companies accumulate records of people and their interactions, they have been selling and/or giving away personal data without consequences, for years now, and your only argument is "product good, sell well, stop".
This is a generalized statement and half the truth is always a lie.

Didn't Bell end up benefiting from the antitrust ruling?