[quinnirill]

That’s assuming the divested Chrome would then proceed to lose its gigantic market share and thus the mind-boggling proceeds from defaulting to Google as the search engine. They might even be able to afford a bigger development team, if need be.

[burnerthrow008]

But what makes you think the DoJ allow Google to continue paying Chrome to have Google as default? Google is already not allowed to pay Apple to be default.

[wffurr]

>> Google is already not allowed to pay Apple to be default

The antitrust remedy isn’t set until the September hearings and won’t take effect until after years of appeals hearings.