No.
That was easy.
Betteridge’s law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.
What if the headline is “do you not like me?”
Why would that be a headline?
No.
No
If Google is broken up what changes? Are there going to two different companies creating a map app?
The breakup this is referring to is splitting off the Android operating system from the rest of Google.
Even if you split Android off from Google, the Play store is still the Play store, nothing would change except it wouldn’t be under Google anymore.
There’s a problem too saying “it’s a monopoly”, as long as Apple is running their app store and Google has theirs, there’s no monopoly. Change phones. Problem solved.
Not sure what changes, but it’s scary how much Google controls. Even if we just broke off YouTube from them, that would be a big deal.
Ideally we would split their search engine, YouTube, and chrome each into two competing companies. (Google A, Google B, Chrome A, Chrome B, YouTube A, YouTube B)
Because Google has so much power they can make changes that will break search results, websites, and browsers if you don’t accept changes that are beneficial to them.
This honestly seems pointless. Would be better off just not allowing google to own the property, even as a subsidiary. That would throw a wrench into too many aspects of society, so I don’t actually see that happening.
Best case scenario is Judge breaks up google which then goes to the Supreme court which will then overturn the ruling.
What would we do without one of the pillars of corruption and surveillance in America? There’s no way Google gets broken up.
What’s the offshoot going to be called, “Soup”? Not like Alphabet is operating any more as “separate organizations” than Google was previously. Nothing changes there.
The offshoot running Android would hopefully just be called “Android”
