> My previous post lists other ways users can ingress to the internet. Chrome is not the only app that connects to the internet.

I'm glad the normies will read your post and find other routes of ingress.

Defaults and distribution matter. Google has your parents and grandparents on lock.

> Investing billions of dollars into platforms for other people to build upon for free is not "just sitting there."

They've spent more in stock buybacks. No better way of saying they don't know how to spend the money.

It doesn't matter how much the trillion dollar company spent. They're an ecological menace. We need a forest fire to clear away the underbrush and ossification, to create new opportunities for startups and innovation capital. Google is like an invasive species. Like lionfish. They're ruining tech for everyone else, taking far too much meat off the bone across every channel.

> Unlike other apps like TikTok where the company has to spend resources developing mobile apps, websites can utilize the browser Google is writing.

I wouldn't know because I use Firefox, but on the subject of apps - these are taxed by Google too.

> If you remove a platform a similar one will take its place.

That's literally the point. Something with less surface area moves in and competes.

Companies should face evolutionary pressure constantly. Business should be brutal and painful and hard. Google is so big they'll never feel any pain. That's been bad for the web, for competition, for diverse innovation. Everything just accrues to Google.

Not to mention these tech conglomerate oligopolies get to put an upper bounds cap on startups and the IPO market. They get to dump on new companies and buy them on the cheap when they give up. It's easy to threaten to subsidize competition for any new company when you're making hundreds of billions a quarter.

If defaults are so unfair how did Chrome ever become the dominant browser in the first place? Build a better browser and people will use it, just like they did with Chrome. Probably won't happen today, not because of Google being the default, but because browsers are a mature product and it just isn't nearly as easy to make something noticeably better.

>I'm glad the normies will read your post and find other routes of ingress.

Some of the apps I listed have billions of users. The normies know about them.

>They've spent more in stock buybacks

This is moving the goal posts. They still have done a tremendous amount of work creating and maintaining platforms that millions of people are building upon. Companies can always do more, but you can't say that they are doing nothing at all.

>these are taxed by Google too.

Ad revenue, which makes up the bulk of revenue, is not taxed.