• tabular@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    If Google is broken up what changes? Are there going to two different companies creating a map app?

    • psychothumbs@lemmy.worldOP
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      7 months ago

      The breakup this is referring to is splitting off the Android operating system from the rest of Google.

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        7 months ago

        Even if you split Android off from Google, the Play store is still the Play store, nothing would change except it wouldn’t be under Google anymore.

        There’s a problem too saying “it’s a monopoly”, as long as Apple is running their app store and Google has theirs, there’s no monopoly. Change phones. Problem solved.

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      7 months ago

      Not sure what changes, but it’s scary how much Google controls. Even if we just broke off YouTube from them, that would be a big deal.

      Ideally we would split their search engine, YouTube, and chrome each into two competing companies. (Google A, Google B, Chrome A, Chrome B, YouTube A, YouTube B)

      Because Google has so much power they can make changes that will break search results, websites, and browsers if you don’t accept changes that are beneficial to them.

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        7 months ago

        This honestly seems pointless. Would be better off just not allowing google to own the property, even as a subsidiary. That would throw a wrench into too many aspects of society, so I don’t actually see that happening.