Skip to main content

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

See all Stories

A
“The value of Chrome to Google is substantially more than the value of Chrome to anyone else.”

Google’s lawyer is making a long case against the Chrome sale — essentially arguing that nobody else has the pragmatic incentives to keep developing Chromium or the ability to maintain Chrome as competently. Any divested version of Chrome will be “a shadow of the current Chrome,” he says. “I don’t see how anybody would be better off.” Also, he says, 80 percent of Chrome users are outside the US, and they’d be affected by the divestiture as well.

Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.