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And Amazon. And Microsoft. And Apple. And Netflix. And every other conglomerate...
And USA and China, they are too big and a threat to everyone else.
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What market is Disney a monopoly in?
Soon to expire copyright material (stories, characters, etc.) that they then block from ever entering the public domain. https://nyunews.com/opinion/2019/10/01/disney-public-domain-...
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Soon to expire copyright material (stories, characters, etc.) that they then block from ever entering the public domain. https://nyunews.com/opinion/2019/10/01/disney-public-domain-...
Disney owns considerably less than 1% of soon to expire copyright material, so no.
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> How can Amazon be allowed to sell competing products in their own marketplace, when they own the actual marketplace? They should have been forced to divide their busin Depends on how you define “marketplace”. Costco/Walmart/Best Buy/Target/Home Depot/Lowe’s/grocery stores all sell their own brands next to competing brands in their stores. Is their one store the marketplace? It takes considerably more effort to go t…
It's not just whatever marketplace, anti-monopoly legislation focuses on markets where the players own a significant share of the full market. In the case of Amazon, it seems like they have above 52% of the e-commerce market in the US in 2019 ( https://www.statista.com/statistics/955796/global-amazon-e-c... ) so probably it's even higher now. When one player now has over half the market, you need to carefully watch w…
How does Amazon harm consumers? I mean precisely, how?
Amazon is one of the most highly rated companies in the US by its customers. Its NPS score is 69 and 70 is considered "world class".
I can get almost anything online shipped to my house the SAME DAY. If Amazon sends you the wrong item they'll let you keep the wrong one and immediately ship you a new one!
How is taking action against Amazon going to help consumers? Seems to me that just ends up being a giant win for Walmart and target who offer worse service and often worse prices!
So how are consumers being hurt?
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So what happened?
What sector does Microsoft dominate these days? They actually are pretty good at competing. Major units at Microsoft: OS. This one is old, gone through anti trust stuff already. There's Mac / Linux. Cloud. Azure is competing against AWS, GCP, everyone else. Gaming. Xbox has Sony and Nintendo. The strongest monopoly argument is still operating system/office, but even that Google is eroding away at office. The server m…
I don’t see their power waning. Their control of Office and Windows lets them bundle things like Teams and OneDrive, which puts pressure on smaller companies like Slack (sold to Salesforce) and Dropbox, who have a harder time selling when MS is throwing in OneDrive for free if you’re already buying Windows/Office/Exchange/Azure/etc.
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So what happened?
What sector does Microsoft dominate these days? They actually are pretty good at competing. Major units at Microsoft: OS. This one is old, gone through anti trust stuff already. There's Mac / Linux. Cloud. Azure is competing against AWS, GCP, everyone else. Gaming. Xbox has Sony and Nintendo. The strongest monopoly argument is still operating system/office, but even that Google is eroding away at office. The server m…
And the server market is not dominated by *nix. Public facing websites, yes. Corps are full of Windows Server. Filled to the brim.
The top 10 tech companies have collectively acquired and shut down hundreds of small, successful startups. I believe this is very detrimental to the web and the economy. Founders need to have that as an option for an exit though. What are the alternatives? Limiting ownership to 49%?
What happened to building a profitable company, or at least one close enough to ipo, and “making it” that way?
And Microsoft is not in this list. Who would have predicted that?