to me, shaving Android off their business (suggested next step if this fails) would be way more impactful
Why not both!
I think Google is putting their eggs in one basket (Android) in preparation for them selling off chrome. They are already killing ChromeOS.
https://www.androidauthority.com/chrome-os-becoming-android-3500661/
I’m worrying that whatever gets sold (Chrome or Android) might end up in the hands of someone even more scummy than Google.
Is there any company more scummy than Google?
Oracle?
The next day, the Chrome division is sold off to a new company “Bloogle” and we’re back to square dumb.
And before you think about applying for a job there, know that the new company is still demanding mandatory 5 days in the office
Why does it need to be sold to another big company, why can’t they just break Google up so chrome becomes its own business?
Chrome by itself would likely cost 100 billion dollars to sell, and then more to maintain, without any clear revenue except selling user data. Chrome is not a profitable product on its own. Not many companies can afford that.
Well shucks, I guess it should just be made fully open source, the code distributed, and the business dissolved. Womp wooomp.
Because chrome doesn’t make any money
Google could pay chrome billions just like they pay mozillla and apple…
Besides it’s not like that’s really true anyway, chrome would make tons of money independently, it would just sell user data to Google or other parties instead of Google getting it for free. Chrome ‘doesn’t make any money’ because it doesn’t need to on paper, the same way a parking lot doesn’t make any money for a grocery store, but if a third party owned the lot, the grocery store would just pay them to use it, or the individual people using the lot would.
Chrome is the biggest browser and successfully collects data on billions of people, additionally, chrome development would absolutely be supported by all of the companies that build chromium based browsers like Microsoft, opera, brave, etc.
I wonder what would happen to the 800 gorbillion Chromebooks if this sale happens
Is there any company with the funds to buy this that would not become also a monopoly?
If Google does not set the price for 200 trillion USD and it can be really bought, then it will be probably M$ and they will change the search engine to Bing and integrate Coplilot or whatever the fuck it is called now into it.
Pretty sure that would count as monopoly as well and the sale wouldn’t be approved.
And I was pretty sure them aquiring Activision Blizzard would count as monopolizing but here we are.
Did you consider that Microsoft lawyers said prices wouldn’t go up? Cause they did, they did say that, which is why the merger was approved. Do you think lawyers can just lie? Don’t you think it’s much more fair now that companies can make pinky promises that prices won’t go up before they become more monopolistic. That’s just good business for both customers and businesses /s
You had me bad in the beginning there haha, thanks for the chuckle.
They should make it open source
I wished I got a nickel every time someone argues Chrome should be open source, only to find out it always has been
Per Wikipedia
Most of Chrome’s source code comes from Google’s free and open-source software project Chromium, but Chrome is licensed as proprietary freeware.[15] WebKit was the original rendering engine, but Google eventually forked it to create the Blink engine;[18] all Chrome variants except iOS used Blink as of 2017.[
Open source =/= FOSS, yes it’s licensed as proprietary, but you can compile Chromium from scratch and the only drawback is Google’s backup server not letting you connect. Other than that, the browser is identical…
Well, it mostly already is. The Chromium project is essentially everything Chrome already has, except Chrome contains a few proprietary components (IIRC the tracking is proprietary)
