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I agree that Google has an inordinate amount of power in the market and that it has to be restrained. That said, I do not like the 'better' qualifier here. It depends too much on who is reading it. Hell, it is not impossible average user will dislike the change ( but they always do).

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Nonsense. It has no more power than Microsoft or Apple.

To a person like me it sounds like MS and Apple should be broken up as well.

Then why pick on Google?

No one is picking at anyone. I want the basic law enforced. I want all the "too big" companies brought to heel. Those entities already have way too much power at their disposal and there is a real social interest in reining it in. I do not think it is too much to ask. You want me to pick at MS too? Show me a path to breaking them up as well and I will gladly sign on to the appropriate effort to make it happen.

I guess I am weird. I want the rules enforced for all players.

My issue is of unfairness: you shouldn't do something to one company you haven't done to others.

Microsoft has been a too big company since the 1990s.

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