Serving Google with the same kind of antitrust Microsoft got would be highly deserved and beneficial, but unfurtunately google made the political investments that Microsoft lacked.
Which means we get to hear officials say Google is indeed in a situation deserving the antitrust, but it's fine "because their products bring value to customers"...
I'm aware of some of the issues involving Android licensing/bundling of apps but not well informed on other aspects.
So if you have a browser based OS, which happens to be loved by the USA school system, which browser do you think many US devs will care mostly about?
Again just to be clear, these questions are in good faith, I'm not simply trying to be argumentative, I'm hoping to get a better understanding of the issues.
Yes if you think in Global market share, Chromebooks don't matter. I hardly see them on sale here when traveling across Europe.
However any US software company doing web applications for the American school system will probably be biased to focus on Chrome.
Advertising Chrome as "a better browser" in (IIRC) search results, gmail, possibly other places as well counts as abuse of monopoly IMO.
Microsoft was punished for similar tactics back when the default desktop was equally important as top of Google search results and top of Gmail inbox.
Margrethe Vestager is a tough customer.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/04/technology/google-eu-antit...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/francescoppola/2016/09/18/apples...