Google antitrust case: Is it time to fight against the new monopoly?
Dear Mrs Kroes,
Google abuses of monopoly power (Article 82) by leveraging its near monopoly in the market of internet applications onto the markets of online Office applications.
When you use GMail and receive an email containing MS Word or an MS Excel document, GMail proposes you three options (Click on the screenshot below to see it full size):
- View the document as HTML
- Open [the document] as a Google document
- Download the document
The problem with this approach is that GMail doesn’t allow you to open your document with his competitors like Zoho, Thinkfree or gOffice.
A much better/competitive solution should allow the GMail users to modify his settings. If the user subscribed to a competitor, he should be able to select the competitor.
In the future, the user should be able to load his attached documents with the Web2.0 application of his choice (Click on the screenshot below to see it full size)
Now, dear European commissioners, isn’t the time to put pressure on this new monopoly like you did with Microsoft in a recent past?
List of online Word processors :
http://itredux.com/office-20/database/?family=Word Processor
List of online Spreadsheet applications:
http://itredux.com/office-20/database/?family=Spreadsheet
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Comments
Scribd is better, i prefer “open as a scribd document” than “open as a Zoho document”, i found a firefox addon could open the links to word(.doc etc) files directly: Scribd Slurper.
I force intall it into firefox 3.6, but it can only open public doc files, it can’t open doc files in gmail attachments.
I also need “open as a Zoho document” very much,
Zoho Docs is far better than Google Docs when edit chinese documents.