Amazon faces potential break-up as FTC finalizes antitrust lawsuit | The FTC is getting ready for the big one::undefined

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      1 year ago

      And like the other 10 companies that own pretty much every brand in the country.

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        1 year ago

        Eeeh. Apple’s App Store fees can be a bit much, but all told the company doesn’t have enough power on any market to warrant such a huge intervention I think. Just forcing them to make their ecosystem more open would be enough. Like how the EU wants to force them to allow 3rd party package managers on iOS.

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          Luckily the EU wants much more, and already accepted regulation that will be implemented later this year to open all ecosystems up, completely. iMessage will have to provide an open API that provides the same service levels than the native client for example.

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          1 year ago

          Ideally this is all that will happen with Amazon as well

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        I want to see the same happen to Apple, to many fingers in too many pies.

        Their app store, + cell phone, computer, publishing, music store, streaming service, ect ect.

        Want to see google, Microsoft, apple, and others all broken up.

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        Yes and no.

        The simple fact that you’re not using IE6 on MSN with Bing search to access a Windows server is more or less proof that the constraints placed on Microsoft at that time did actually have an impact (even if I felt robbed that the company wasn’t split up at the time).

        Today the one thing Microsoft is still dominante in is Office software (and even then Google docs is snapping at their heals).

        OS? Android is more popular than windows Server OS? Linux rules the roost Browser? Chrome

        The company that really needs scrutiny ATM is Google.

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      1 year ago

      What about facebook, disney, netflix, twitter, apple, uber, airbnb?

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        1 year ago

        Uber has direct competition in Lyft, among other rideshares and entrenched taxi companies. Disney and Netflix are literal competitors. You’re on an alternative to Twitter right now, and Facebook is yet another. Apple has competitors in every industry. AirBnB has both tons of competition and 26% market share - below Booking.com

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          Oligopolies are still not competitive. We need research into finding out what market share starts distorting competition, and tying antitrust to that.

          A market with 2 competitors can still be broken down further.

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            1 year ago

            Oligopoly has an actual meaning and that meaning isn’t “companies I have heard of”

            What’s funny is you hate Uber because you’ve heard of them but Yellow Cab had a literal monopolistic chokehold and you didn’t give a fuck at all.