Seems like a monopolistic move.
Monopolies aren't a prerequisite for antitrust action, they're the failure state when you should have acted sooner.
Everything is a monopoly these days. Its practically meaningless in these conversations.
Every feature of their apps needs to be easily integrated into whatever random POS every single food truck uses! I should be able to buy tacos from any taco vendor through the Taco Bell app. They're a monopoly!
Imagine a world where 95% of grocery stores insist on you driving a Ford car.
Isn't that more of what's going on here? An optional feature people can use if they choose to use the holistic platform?
This isn't forcing anyone to choose Chrome. The customer can still use any browser they want with Workspace. They get an extra feature when they use Chrome though.
I suppose you can argue the admin is doing it and Google is merely facilitating it, but the article title is "block Firefox access"
The article isn't accurate. One could say they're uninformed, one could say maybe they're ignorant, but it's not reality.
This is a security feature a Workspace customer can choose to enable or not. If the workspace customer wants to use Firefox they're free to not enable this security feature that isn't supported by Firefox.
It's not a requirement at all to use Workspace, it's an optional feature. You can still use Firefox or any other browser for that matter with Workspace, if the manager of that Workspace wants you to. Which it's the company's software suite, they should be able to configure it how they wish shouldn't they?
If Google actually started banning all non-Chrome browsers maybe I'd agree that's harmful to the browser market. It was a bad thing when they blocked Windows Phone from accessing Google services back in the day, for example.