As Google faced off against the Department of Justice on the first day of ahotly anticipated antimonopoly trial , company attorney John Schmidtlein put down out an interesting perspective . “ This example is really all about Microsoft , ” Schmidtlein aver .
If you’re able to name one lookup locomotive other than Google , it ’s probably Bing , but Microsoft ’s rival search creature is all but a caper compared to Google ’s Search supremacy , with a wimpy 3 % food market share . agree to the governance , that ’s because Google kneecaps its competitors by pay companies such as Apple as much as $ 10 billion a year to make its Search tool the default on telephone set and browsers . But according to Schmidtlein , Microsoft ’s deficiency of achiever has nothing to do with anticompetitive doings : it ’s because Bing take in and Google is good .
“ Microsoft has fail to invest , run out to innovate , ” and that would still be true whether or not Google was cutting Apple , Samsung , Mozilla , and other companies jumbo checks to make it the nonremittal choice , Schmidtlein said .
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The trial mark the political science ’s first major antitrust engagement against a tech caller since the DOJ took on Microsoft in the former ‘ XC . It ’ll be a farsighted time before we reach a verdict , but just on the first day we ’ve already realize some surprising — and hilarious — revelations .
Click though the sideshow above for the good things that bechance on day one of Google ’s antitrust test , or just scroll down if you ’re on a fluid machine .
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