What a strange take. How can you say that don't like one company making too much control while advocating for giving too much control to another?

Fair competition and level playing field is the only way users get the most benefit.

> Fair competition and level playing field is the only way users get the most benefit.

THAT’s the problem. We don’t have that. Google is the default search engine for the VAST majority of users. Plus Gmail is incredibly popular. And Google Docs, Sheets, etc. Google Maps is king on the web.

And they use every single property to push users to download Chrome.

In top of they can they can break other browsers on their properties whether purposely or through inaction. And that can drive people to Chrome too.

So it’s not a level playing field. Google is already the vast majority of the browser market. The only thing holding them back was Apple’s policy.

Which is now gone in the EU and likely many other places soon.

I contend this will have a huge unintended consequence for the web.

I don’t think Apple should be able to control browsers. But I don’t think Google should have unfettered access either.

And if you do that in the wrong order you screw everyone. And that’s where we are.

The worse thing is once a single engine dominates, implementation will be the spec and no one will be able to create an alternative engine again.

And after an anti-trust ruling to fix things, it will be normal again right?

Just like how MS is no longer the vast majority of PC sold since the anti trust trial.

Right? Right?