Competition, not break-up, is the cure for tech giants’ dominance

Post by sfopdxnonstop » Sun, Mar 17, 2019, 7:39 AM UTC

Post by chillacy » Sun, Mar 17, 2019, 6:15 PM UTC

m-p-3 wrote: post #10

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There are different causes for monopoly and maybe they should be considered and addressed individually. Type 1) Very high costs You are free to build a competitor to Google Search. No one has the resources needed to build it or they don't think it's a good way to spend their resources if they do have them. Type 2) The nature of the product renders competition difficult You are free to compete with Facebook. Unfortuna…

I was reading some comments on Slashdot regarding the Spotify vs Apple story, and some where saying "Spotify just wants to sell music subscriptions while asking to be hosted for free on Apple's app store. If they don't like paying 30% they can just make their own device and app store". Yeah, as if you can build an ecosystem as big as Apple from scratch just on the premise of selling music and nothing else. Some peopl…