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Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 05 May 2024 00:23:17 +0000 From: Tyrone <none@none.none> Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone Subject: Re: google antitrust trial X-No-Archive: Yes References: <v167bf$pnd$1@solani.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=fixed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Usenapp for MacOS X-Usenapp: v1.27.2/l - Full License Message-ID: <OnudnZhxHNnoTKv7nZ2dnZfqn_SdnZ2d@supernews.com> Date: Sun, 05 May 2024 00:23:17 +0000 Lines: 30 X-Trace: sv3-LCsCRlORn59rhcBan9fb2MNKLa+KV9+HoM1dXfJDuko4X8h8q9eDG7r3ohfHCsHnLEyjDWy0c0beSdg!YXJAZtQh2drVWHLHVviIu67Cp4J6x4If/XIlAKzUlv+61qKmADBjFkM3MJEDG3AB7rqfwe2NK7uw!ri9JaJmf/k4= X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2604 On May 4, 2024 at 4:55:11 PM EDT, "badgolferman" <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote: > Surely the same people here who were defending Apple’s business model will > come to Google’s defense now too… I don't see Google as a monopoly. Large, yes. But being large and successful does not make a monopoly. By definition, a monopoly is when there is NO choice. 100 years ago, Standard Oil was a U.S. monopoly. They owned most of the production and all of the distribution. You could not buy oil/gas/kerosene/etc. without money going Standard. THAT is a monopoly. Today, there is plenty of competition in phones/searching/email services/etc. I have never used Google search and I get along just fine. You can use Hotmail/Bing/Yahoo/iPhones/Edge/Safari etc., with no money going to Google. Apple is not a monopoly either, for the same reasons. You can use a Samsung phone/Yahoo/Spotify/FireFox etc. and no money goes to Apple. No one is forced to use Google or Chrome or Android or iPhones or iTunes or Apple Mail. Lots of people freely choosing what to use is the very definition of healthy competition. You can't declare that Apple AND Google are "monopolies". That's not how it works. You can't have 2 "monopolies" competing against each other. The U.S. government should sit down, shut up and do what they do best. Which is doing nothing until election time comes around. Then they all start yapping on TV to get re-elected. Then they all go away for 1/2/4 years whatever.