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0 pointsscarface_741y ago0 comments

That line of reasoning didn’t work out to well against Microsoft. No there was no browser choice screen in the US and no forced unbundling.

If enough users choose Chrome willingly on the desktop to make it the majority, do you think unbundling is going to help some scrappy startup hosting video at scale with all of the associated cost is going to arise instead of everyone just downloading YouTube?

Google Drive has plenty of competition and it’s not even the majority.

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dreghgh1y ago· 1 in thread

Your two arguments contradict each other. Bundling YouTube is fine because there are no viable competitors. Bundling Google Drive is fine because there are plenty of viable competitors.

If Chrome was able to compete in a level playing field, then so should the other Google services. You seem to believe that Google makes an effort to tie together its services because they are stupid and don't realise they are not gaining anything from it.

scarface_74OP1y ago

There are no viable options for user distributed video? Ever heard of TikTok? Facebook? Instagram? Your own website?

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