It seems like Google helping Motorola or Mozilla compete elsewhere could be interpreted as monopolistic behavior. I’m sure this practice happens in many different markets, but to me that does not justify or defend a monopoly.
Google bought Motorola for its patents, and resold the rest. As a high-ranking exec, Eric surely made a decent amount on the deal and is essentially an ex-employee. His testimony will be positive no matter what, and there is little reason to look for sophisticated reasoning in it.
Mozilla is comically mismanaged, for which Baker is at least partially responsible. Firefox market share shrinks every day (currently hovering around 3%). Unless you're conspiracy-minded, it's tough to explain how their default search setting is worth $400m/yr that Google pays Mozilla. Seems like their main job is to be "the competition" that Google can point to.
Liked, especially for the "comically mismanaged". True if you don't use their products. I recently had to ditch Thunderbird because their update made the code for the screen something like 3X wider than my actual screen. It completely froze everything.
About Google and Mozilla, speaking strictly as a user. I am primarily a project person, not a multi-tasker. Yet, despite being a project person, I sometimes have to multi-task. In order to do that, my tools have to what and where I expect them to be. When Google had their way with Mozilla, my whole Mozilla(Firefox) went kerfluie. My search engine of choice is DuckDuckGo. It was my home page and the search bar was in the middle of the page, nice and big and visible. When Mozilla updated my software the search engine was Google by default. Like DuckDuckGo, the search bar was in the middle of the page. When I went to settings and made DDG my default search engine, there the search bar was in the middle of the page. But the problem was, as I typed my search term, nothing appeared in the search bar. Perplexed, I looked around and found my search terms up in the address bar. In other words - yes, you could have the search engine of your choice, but they were going to make it as hard as possible for you to use it.
Finally, some kind soul wrote an add-on for Firefox that put the search engine of your choice right back in the center of the page with all the features intact..
It would be interesting to know what's going on with Mozilla apart from Google. They seem so willing to totally upend their own software, to hell with the users.
Thanks, Yosef. I’ll miss your notes.
It seems like Google helping Motorola or Mozilla compete elsewhere could be interpreted as monopolistic behavior. I’m sure this practice happens in many different markets, but to me that does not justify or defend a monopoly.
Google bought Motorola for its patents, and resold the rest. As a high-ranking exec, Eric surely made a decent amount on the deal and is essentially an ex-employee. His testimony will be positive no matter what, and there is little reason to look for sophisticated reasoning in it.
Mozilla is comically mismanaged, for which Baker is at least partially responsible. Firefox market share shrinks every day (currently hovering around 3%). Unless you're conspiracy-minded, it's tough to explain how their default search setting is worth $400m/yr that Google pays Mozilla. Seems like their main job is to be "the competition" that Google can point to.
Liked, especially for the "comically mismanaged". True if you don't use their products. I recently had to ditch Thunderbird because their update made the code for the screen something like 3X wider than my actual screen. It completely froze everything.
About Google and Mozilla, speaking strictly as a user. I am primarily a project person, not a multi-tasker. Yet, despite being a project person, I sometimes have to multi-task. In order to do that, my tools have to what and where I expect them to be. When Google had their way with Mozilla, my whole Mozilla(Firefox) went kerfluie. My search engine of choice is DuckDuckGo. It was my home page and the search bar was in the middle of the page, nice and big and visible. When Mozilla updated my software the search engine was Google by default. Like DuckDuckGo, the search bar was in the middle of the page. When I went to settings and made DDG my default search engine, there the search bar was in the middle of the page. But the problem was, as I typed my search term, nothing appeared in the search bar. Perplexed, I looked around and found my search terms up in the address bar. In other words - yes, you could have the search engine of your choice, but they were going to make it as hard as possible for you to use it.
Finally, some kind soul wrote an add-on for Firefox that put the search engine of your choice right back in the center of the page with all the features intact..
It would be interesting to know what's going on with Mozilla apart from Google. They seem so willing to totally upend their own software, to hell with the users.