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US v. Google: all the news from the search antitrust showdown

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Google’s attorney cites a “laundry list” of reasons selling Chrome (and maybe Android) is bad.

Schmidtlein says not only is it not justified by the law, the tangible harms outweigh “speculative benefits” to the competitive landscape. There’s “voluminous evidence” Chrome succeeded through innovation.

Mehta says the outcome of this plan is “less speculative” than many of the other proposals, and “in some sense, it’s from a judicial standpoint, a little cleaner and a little more elegant and a little less speculative than some of the other remedies.”

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