Let's get rid of all the things they produced too. No iPhones, no Android, no Google Search. Let's go back to 1983.
But they also monopolized the market and prevented alternatives.
DMA is about fair markets.
Without Google, Apple, or Tiktok, we'd have other platforms. Maybe fairer platforms? It's not like there'd be zero innovation in every category without those companies.
Yes, GNU/Linux phones are strongly disadvantaged at the moment due to the duopoly. Sent from my Librem 5.
I don't even want to think about what a ghetto the mobile experience probably is.
Sure, if something is great for you stick to it, but assuming things about "every day persons" seems exaggerated. I also heard macOS <=> Windows switching experience is "bad" so for me it is more "what people are used to/how much they want to improve" than an inherent "quality".
When exactly do you think google was founded?
You know what? That actually sounds pretty cool.
Edit: I'm hardly one to care about karma, but it's funny that I'm getting downvoted just for thinking that that idea is neat. Differences of opinion are okay, no? If there's something you don't like about something I say, I'm open to feedback rather than silent disapproval. :)
After all, what's so terrible about thinking that life without smartphones and Google Search wouldn't be so bad? Haven't a sizeable chunk of us posting here lived without those three things even existing for a good chunk of our lives?