David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

Apple has Safari.

I have a bunch of problems with Apple too, but I love Safari.

I love the fact that we have a premier browser running on a premier operating system that people can't turn the web into just a Chrome experience.

But I also think that the open web needs this trillion dollar champion.

or at least benefits from it.

Maybe it doesn't need it, but it certainly benefits from it.

And of all the things that are wrong with monopoly formation in technology, Chrome is the last thing.

And this is why I get so frustrated sometimes about the anti or the monopoly fight, that there are real problems.

And we should be focusing on the premier problems first, like the toll booths on our mobile phones.

They're a far bigger problem.

It's not the open web.

It's not the tools that we use to access the open web.

If I don't want to use Chrome, if my customers of my businesses that run on the Internet don't want to use Chrome, they don't have to.

We're never forced to go through it.

The open Internet is still open.

So I think it's a real shame.

that the DOJ has chosen to pursue Google in this way.

I do think there are other things you can nail Google for and their ad monopoly maybe or the shenanigans they've done in controlling both sides of the ad ledger that they both control the supply and the demand.

There are problems.

Chrome isn't it.