I hate to say it, but unless Chrome becomes an open source project, I’d rather that it be owned by Google. No other company that could make money on a browser should own Chrome.
Chromium :3
and android… right? RIGHT??
The problem is that I feel android being sold would give it to a closed source entity. Ideally, a judge would make it so AOSP goes to a nonprofit governing body independent of any corporation, but I have a strong feeling that is not what will happen (in the US).
Yeah, MS would probably buy Android to get back into the mobile market.
I agree. Ideally, Android would be something like Debian or a mobile project of the Linux Foundation. It would really be better off if it wasn’t beholden to a company.
The mobile OS wars have already settled on Android and iOS. Closing off Android would destroy the market, and I don’t want to go back to the days when Windows Mobile was the leading mobile OS.
Odds are low of anything good happening because of this administration.
Android would be unprofitable and unsustainable in isolation. So that would leave each OEM to build their own thing, but to make a long story short, everybody would just get an iPhone. So then I wonder, if making such a ruling would create the void for a monopoly, what’s the sense?
It could be profitable the way RHEL or the Mozilla Foundation is profitable.
Companies will pay for OS support, and companies will pay for access. Android as a foundation with a company selling OS support and services which could be rebranded would be profitable.
I’m thinking about the wider IoT space here beyond only mobile.
Deal.
Lets get a whole bunch of different OS. That compete with each other.
Android could be profitable if Google Play Services went with it. However, that doesn’t exactly fix the monopoly problems associated with Android.
Please. PLEEEEEEEEASE!
Why stop at chrome. Break off Android too. They are shitting all over that now.
Separate Apple software and silicon as well. Break them all up! But honestly to I’d rather them start with our food system. Break up the conglomerates, break up the grocery stores, etc… I can live if I don’t buy a new phone or use Google search or Chrome.
Break up the big farms! One company shouldn’t be allowed to own more than one,t if even one!
Separate the media portions of these companies as well; apple and amazon music, tv, streaming into separate entities.
Don’t simply allow them to be purchased by another huge conglomerate or corporation like perplexity or openai, split them into their own entities. Stop companies purchasing each other to avoid this mess from repeating and avoid monopolies
Or just nationalize these companies. Trump already started the process with intel
A 10% stake with no board representation or even the option to influence the makeup of the board is hardly a step towards nationalization. The US is just along for the ride even if they drive it off a cliff.
because perplexity or anthropic buying android would be even worse.
Once. Just once I want to have a happy thought to creep into my mind instead of this hell of probability. As example. Valve buys Android and runs their steamOS through it.
Valve could do that today already for free. Why would they pay for it instead?
What would happen if you disabled all connections on a Tesla? Or put it in some kind of Faraday cage? Would it just shut itself down, or would it keep running in its current state?
