Alphabet & US government set argue if Google is a monopoly in 10-week trial

A 10-week trial between Alphabet and the US government starts tomorrow that'll try and decide if Alphabet's Google search engine has abused its market power by "illegally using partnerships with phone makers and internet browser companies to shut out rival search engines". We all know how it works - Google gives fat cheques to companies like Apple and Mozilla to make sure Google is the first choice in their browsers so any other search engine (even Bing and Microsoft's big bag of cash) simply can't match what Google is paying. They're also gonna debate if Google's mandating of bundling Google apps as a requirement for smartphone OEMs to get access to the Google Play store is legit. The EU tackled these issues years ago, will be interesting to see how the yanks handle it.