On the market: one browser, very fashionable. Because the treatments part of the Google Search trial heats up, two issues have change into very clear. The US authorities would like to force Google to sell Chrome, and there are a lot of companies interested in buying it. What do you actually get if you purchase the world’s hottest browser, although? And what wouldn’t it actually price?
On this episode of The Vergecast, Nilay, David, and The Verge’s Jake Kastrenakes try to discover the precise purchaser for Chrome. However earlier than that, we have now some information to get to. Information together with that we won the Webby Award for Finest Expertise Podcast! Thanks once more to everybody who voted for us — we had been up towards some wonderful competitors, and we’re thrilled you picked us. We even have some Celebration Speaker Capitalism Updates, some ideas and tales about trying to buy a Switch 2, and a variety of confusing new information about tariffs. I mean, it’s one gadget, Michael. What could it cost, ten dollars?
After that, we head into the courtroom, the place each Google and Meta are preventing for his or her antitrust lives. We speak about what the trial means for AI companies and search rivals alike, and why there aren’t as many reasonable Chrome consumers as you may suppose. There may solely be one which is sensible. (One we fail to even take into account: Yahoo, which said it was interested simply after we completed recording.) We additionally focus on Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom’s scorching testimony within the Meta trial, and why it could be damaging to Meta’s case.
If you wish to know extra about all the things we focus on on this episode, listed below are some hyperlinks to get you began, first in gadget and tariff information:
And within the lightning spherical: