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Lost_My_Mind ,

Ooooooooooh shit. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out.

Ragnarok314159 ,

Will go to SCOTUS, a few bribes will happen, then it will die.

jabjoe ,
@jabjoe@feddit.uk avatar

‘Biggest Antitrust Case of the 21st Century’ so far…

TargaryenTKE ,

We can only hope

nintendiator ,

So now Mozilla can stop receiving their hush money, right?

Bob_Robertson_IX ,

Will this mean that no one will be able to pay to be the default search, or just that Google will no longer be allowed?

Honestly, Google is still the best free search even though it isn’t as good as it used to be… and if this ruling means that no one can pay to be the default then Google will still win based on name recognition and performance. Plus they will save money by not needing to give it to Apple.

The real loser here is Apple who is going to lose a fairly large revenue stream.

TheGalacticVoid ,

I imagine that, if regulators go hard enough, it’ll make sweeping changes company-wide. Google does a lot of anti-competitive behaviors that don’t involve money and are very sneaky, and as a result, we might see a lot of features be changed in the long term.

chiliedogg ,

I think this may also end up killing their deal with reddit.

Cornelius_Wangenheim ,

The biggest loser is Mozilla, who will lose about 80% of their revenue. If they enforce this, Firefox will pretty much be dead.

Eldritch ,

Biggest “so far” they’re far from the only.

Stegget ,

Clone Teddy Roosevelt.

bitwolf ,

Please let an outcome from this enable users to change the default Android search from Google search 🙏

pewgar_seemsimandroid ,

tbh i care more about meta because of EEE

rozlav ,

Eee?

pewgar_seemsimandroid ,

you need to get checked out, every fediverse user knows that means Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

dumbass ,
@dumbass@leminal.space avatar

I thought it meant “Elegant Electric Elephant”

LifeInMultipleChoice ,

Eccentric Electric Erotica. Took till the third page of images for an elephant to be involved. /S (I think)

kat_angstrom ,

I thought Microsoft was the company that first embraced the whole “embrace, extend, extinguish” philosophy?

mlg ,
@mlg@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah but they ended up investing in apple to avoid more serious antitrust litigation from becoming a complete monopoly, and Linux ruined their chances of dominating the server maketshare.

Google just took it and did it more discretly over a longer period of time.

candybrie ,

My point is people still used that VHSs. They just also bought DVDs. For most people, you didn’t only use one. I think most people went through a period where they used both.

candybrie ,

You don’t pre-emptively punish people not causing harm. That’s a bad way to go.

Baguette ,

Google no longer has the motto of “dont be evil”, I wonder why…

candybrie ,

Because they’re engaging in harmful behaviors and need to be broken up and regulated.

candybrie ,

You don’t need to bring your library. Having your library split between multiple platforms isn’t a big deal and most people do it. You just don’t give them any more money.

People didn’t not buy DVDs because they had a library of VHSs.

Jarix ,

Uh yes many of us did not buy dvds because we had vhs and couldn’t afford to switch to a new medium.

Just like if we had a dvd collection we didn’t go to HDDVD / Blueray. Many people never got into Blu-ray at all

But eventually we had to and now we have issues with drm and losing purchased digital media on streaming services

candybrie ,

I’m not talking about replacing your VHS collection but buying DVDs in addition. You would still watch both. Maybe buying a DVD player was a barrier. But it wasn’t that you owned VHS.

Jarix ,

Yes it was for many many people. You seem to find this hard to believe.

Blueray/HDDvd was out before the majority of people stopped using their vhs collections.

As tvs went digital and high def it took a long time for people to care enough to upgrade/replace

queue ,
@queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Blueray/HDDvd was out before the majority of people stopped using their vhs collections.

Do you have a citation on this? Personally I was DVD only until I got an Xbox One, which could play Blurays.

And we got DVDs because my brother marketed getting a PS2 to my family as a DVD player and a Video Game system, as one of those alone cost the same as a PS2 at the time.

And we gave up VHS tapes long before, as space is at a premium for us. Worse quality, worse features, more work to rewatch something, bigger format, etc.

candybrie ,

Ok then switch to streaming. My point was just that just because you have a VHS collection doesn’t mean you can’t get media in another way and still use your VHS collection. And most people would use both while they transitioned. Throwing out all your VHSs for the hot new thing isn’t something a lot of people did. Or throwing out all your DVDs because streaming is a thing. People aren’t restricted to one thing.

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