A rare bid to break up Alphabet Inc.’s Google is one of the options being considered by the Justice Department after a landmark court ruling found that the company monopolized the online search market, according to people with knowledge of the deliberations.
  • mox@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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    4 months ago

    Consumers spent about $47b in revenue on the Play Store,

    The article you linked actually says, “Consumers spent $47 billion on Google Play apps and games in 2023.” Google’s 30% of that every year can easily fund something like Android. And that doesn’t even count the advertising revenue from free apps on the Play Store, nor the additional reach into people’s lives that it provides, which translates to even more income from their highly targeted advertising platform.

    We don’t know how much Android costs Google.

    And yet you insist that Android is a huge money loser.

    Internet Explorer absolutely dominated browser user share.

    And?

    They used the money from Office / Windows to subsidize their free browser, which was illegal.

    Sigh… I don’t know what point you’re trying to make with all these tangential comments. If it’s to support your notion of a hypothetical “domino effect” making a Google breakup dangerous, I don’t think you’ve succeeded.