Christopher Hutton is a technology reporter for the Washington Examiner covering Big Tech companies like Facebook and X as well as the regulatory efforts by Washington to rein in the tech companies. He previously wrote for a number of other outlets, including Daily Dot, Pando Daily, Religion Unplugged, and other outlets.
The Department of Justice's case that Google engaged in anticompetitive business practices, laid out in federal court in the past five weeks, focuses on the claim that the search engine's deal with Apple stopped Apple from making its own search platform.
Mehta heard from 29 witnesses during the DOJ's arguments, according to Bloomberg. The witnesses have varied in expertise, from economists to psychologists to senior executives from Big Tech companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Samsung. Several parts of the trial were closed off due to trade secrets, although the press has filed for the testimony to be unsealed.
"The heart" of the DOJ's case, Mehta said, is whether or not Google's decadeslong partnership with Apple allowed the search engine to hold a monopoly over search. If Google's deal had blocked Apple from developing its own search engine, then that would make the arrangement anti-competitive and potentially a violation of antitrust law.
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