The DOJ is Doing its Best to Make Google Unprofitable
ICLE President Geoffrey A. Manne is quoted in this Reason article on DOJ v. Google’s antitrust case threat to tech giant’s free-to-consumer business model. Read the full article here.
Geoffrey Manne, president of the International Center for Law and Economics, disagrees. Manne tells Reason he suspects “Google would be loath to change [the free-to-user model] if it can at all be avoided.” Manne thinks charging handset manufacturers for Android, which Google currently finances through search revenues, is a much more likely scenario. Still, Manne predicts the “remedies will either be fruitless (because people will continue to prefer and use Google) or affirmatively harmful (because Google will have reduced incentive and/or ability to compete).”