| >Make Google give up Android (which is Linux based) and watch an entire industry pop up. I guess that would be when Apple takes over smartphones entirely. >TikTok creators earn 70-90% >Twitch creators make 50-70%. They don't get that revenue split from ads. They either match YouTube or give less depending on the size of the channel. >Split YouTube into ten video websites and watch a robust, de-consolidated economy sprout. We had 10+ video websites simultaneously before YouTube. The videos were all lower quality, limited in length, and obviously no revenue share. Only YouTube grew out of them to become YouTube and it was because of a superior product. >This is the most heinous of all because it's the insidious linchpin behind Google's evil empire. Google didn't make me switch to Chrome, Mozilla did. One day they decided to rework the UI, which broke my add-ons. And then they decided that I'm not allowed to use my own add-ons without permission from Mozilla. Using my own add-ons with Chrome (or chromium-based browsers) was no problem. Also, Mozilla mucked up the mobile browser thing themselves. Their scroll felt extremely wrong to use for years. Every other application on my phone scrolled in one way, but somehow Firefox did not. Eventually they fixed it, but that took a long time. I'm not opposed to using Firefox, but they themselves pushed me away. >Brave can and will easily fill this void when Google is forced out. You think Google is going to continue building Chromium if they can't have Chrome? ??? >Microsoft, Yahoo. You used to be able to run your own before Google platformized email. So one tech giant instead of the other? What's the difference? >Yes. Apple Maps is shockingly good. Turns out competition is good. Great if you're in the apple ecosystem, I guess, but that's, again, switching from one tech giant to another. In this case it would be switching into a company known for building walled-gardens. I don't see how this would improve the situation at all. >I don't expect consumers to understand this, but I do expect regulators to get it. And I want more regulators to take up the mantle against Google. Get what? That regulators should go after one tech giant so that their customers are forced to swap to the products of... other tech giants? I'm not here to defend Google, but I feel like you might want to think about this some more. Your answers basically just suggested other tech giants or Brave (which relies on Google still contributing to chromium). Being stuck in Apple's walled garden doesn't sound great to me considering how expensive all their stuff is. |