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Maps/mail/drive/docs/flights/translate: provided for free using their dominance in ad tech to bankroll it and feeding the data back in to the ad platform. No one else can compete, and using dominance in one market to ensure dominance in others has historically been a clear trigger for antitrust.

Android: they lost a court case over this one that has lots of details if you care to look.

The rest are a weird mix of paid services that should be fine to stand up on their own or not even products at all (OAuth).



Docs and GSuite gets plenty of money from businesses abs school districts.


So those portions of the business will stand up fine on their own. The consumer-facing side is anticompetitive, though.


Which “consumer” products? Android is less than 40% of the market in the US. Every single desktop user and iOS user who uses Chrome made an affirmative choice to download it and use it over the browsers bundled with the platforms supported by trillion dollar companies. No one is forced to use Chrome and it’s not even the default.




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