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		spease 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome Some things can only be done at scale, or are a side effect of solving problems at scale. It’s not quite so simple as “big is bad”. Also, it’s harder for international companies to buy, say, Google, than a browser-only company, just through the amount of capital needed to put up a credible offer.

tonyhart7 9 months ago [–]

But it also works vice versa. Remember that Google literally misses its own ChatGPT while key figures literally work at Google.

These trillion-dollar companies only focus on billion-dollar markets and kill their own products that are deemed unable to scale at a planetary level

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