Re: google antitrust trial

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.