Yep, these Europeans are showing their socialistic colors.
What they can’t achieve through technological and business competition, they use the POWER OF GOVERNMENT to attain.
WON’T WORK. The consumer loses in the end.
Before you go too much further in that line of thought ask yourself what business Google isn’t involved in.
I for one think Google is a company that is many times more dangerous than Microsoft ever was given all the information they have been mining and their extensive control over what people see. Minor levels of manipulation of that control can shift the fate of nations that allow Google to dominate the search engine market so excursively is in itself dangerous not merely in the interest of economic stability, but political accountability. There is a good reason democrats have courted Google.
Google needs to be split up into 2 or 3 separate companies.
Apple likewise needs to be split up in to 2 or 3 separate companies.
I’m not usually a proponent of government telling companies how to run their business but so long as Government enforces unreasonable lengthily copy-write and patient rules, that combined with the unfortunate power of branding in a mass market economy leads to an unfortunate corruption in power. We would likely be better off with more than 1 apple and Google on the market competing with each other.