[highwaylights]

I've got to believe this is the phone call that saved Apple in the 90's too.

For all the different interpretations of history and motivations that happened at that time it was clear to everyone that Microsoft stepped in because of the anti-trust investigations already happening and couldn't afford to have them expand beyond Internet Explorer, which would have definitely happened if the Mac disappeared.

Google's in a much safer place with Chrome (its open-source and other browsers are actively using the engine in the market), but why risk it? It's cheap insurance.

[_emacsomancer_]

Chrome isn't open source; Chromium is. (But perhaps they're not ineffective at blurring such things in people's minds.)

[highwaylights]

I get that and probably should’ve clarified. What I mean is they can hold up Chromium and say “we made it so that literally anyone can take what we made and make their own copy without our branding and talking to our services, for free”. That’s an incredibly strong defence against being a monopoly.