Well, the relationship between Chrome and Chromium in this situation is… interesting and a big question mark.
Presumably whoever owns Chrome will by default have a remarkable amount of influence on the ongoing direction of Chromium, just by way of having a massive dominant position over the market overnight. Chrome is not just plain Chromium as it is.
Given that the sale of Chrome would be fundamentally a regulatory constraint it’s also a given that Google would not immediately attempt to re-enter that market (or if they did that they would get a swift spanking all over again).
So yeah, Chrome is probably valuable. How well you can monetize it decoupled from Google’s advertising business proably depends heavily on who you are. Meta or Microsoft could do that very well, but then they’d be in the same regulatory danger zone Google is. DDG, Brave, Opera or Mozilla would definitely benefit but probably wouldn’t be able to afford it.
Because we’re on this timeline the more likely outcome is Elon Musk buys it and we go into another round of seeing the shambling, zombified corpse of a thing stumble forward for years while shedding fascist propaganda. I’m trying to decide if Bezos buying it puts us in the regulation danger zone scenario or the shambling fascist zombie scenario. Both?
Well, the relationship between Chrome and Chromium in this situation is… interesting and a big question mark.
Presumably whoever owns Chrome will by default have a remarkable amount of influence on the ongoing direction of Chromium, just by way of having a massive dominant position over the market overnight. Chrome is not just plain Chromium as it is.
Given that the sale of Chrome would be fundamentally a regulatory constraint it’s also a given that Google would not immediately attempt to re-enter that market (or if they did that they would get a swift spanking all over again).
So yeah, Chrome is probably valuable. How well you can monetize it decoupled from Google’s advertising business proably depends heavily on who you are. Meta or Microsoft could do that very well, but then they’d be in the same regulatory danger zone Google is. DDG, Brave, Opera or Mozilla would definitely benefit but probably wouldn’t be able to afford it.
Because we’re on this timeline the more likely outcome is Elon Musk buys it and we go into another round of seeing the shambling, zombified corpse of a thing stumble forward for years while shedding fascist propaganda. I’m trying to decide if Bezos buying it puts us in the regulation danger zone scenario or the shambling fascist zombie scenario. Both?