Apple and Mozilla may take a big revenue hit if the Google search ruling is upheld; $510M of Mozilla's $593M in revenue was via its Google deal in 2021 and 2022
“Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly.” — With those words from United States District judge Amit Mehta …
Wondering if the browser manufacturers could turn it the other way around - ie. Treat search like an App Store, where the search providers pay to be an option on the search engine, and then pay per million search requests they receive. User is then given choice of which to use.
The Google antitrust case is interesting. Presumably it would mean they couldn't pay other services for use their search engine. Which would obviously affect Mozilla and Apple a lot - Mozilla most, as that's most of their income gone.
I interviewed at Mozilla some years ago, and at the time I had very little experience with tech company culture. The headquarters were wild, more like a rec room than an office. A highlight was meeting some of the Rust developers before it became huge.