The next sentence is more interesting:
> At the same time, Google studied how to pry open Apple’s control of the iPhone by leveraging a new European law intended to help small companies compete with Big Tech.
> At the same time, Google studied how to pry open Apple’s control of the iPhone by leveraging a new European law intended to help small companies compete with Big Tech.
> “I prefer companies to compete on the merits for consumers to want to use their products by offering higher-quality products,” Mr. Hurwitz said. “Not by paying lawyers to go to the European Union and get rules in place in order to obtain access to their competitors’ platforms.”
This somehow implies that Apple with Spotlight and Safari competed on merits for consumers and it won over Google alternatives and now Google is somehow trying to use the law to get an advantage... basically the author nor Mr. Hurwitz have no idea what they are talking about.
I wonder if this might backfire and have the opposite effect, compel Apple to enter the search engine game because Google is attacking them on their own turf.
If Google controls search and the browser on iOS, Apple would have ceded a ton of control to Google.
Yes.
But it is not a law of nature.
And no regulation is very bad for consumers
It is a balance, and there are trade offs