Before we jump to breaking a monopoly first we need to define what it is to be a monopoly and how it is being used improperly. Google has many monopolies, a monopoly on advertising, a monopoly on the mobile app space, and both of those are actively being abused.
However Search engines are completely fungible. People are free to use whatever search engine they want. Google represents 90% of the Search market, but it is not the default option on any desktop OS. It is only the default option on a subset of brow
Have you never heard of a company called Apple? THEY have a ONE HUNDRED PERCENT MONOPOLY on the entire iPhone industry.
You can make Android apps and never Google a single penny, care to explain how you can do that on the iPhone without Apple sticking their fingers into your wallet along the way?
How? Apple doesn't get a penny from the sale of a used iPhone. The problem is, the newest iPhones don't have new stuff that people feel it's worth the price to upgrade. Mature tech is mature tech. "Good-enough" is doing the same thing as happened in other tech devices, like laptops and desktops.
My 5-year-old laptop has 8 gig of RAM - I don't even need half that (wipes Windows). It's a quad core with 2 threads per core - again, still overkill. The 500-gig hard drive more than 400 gigs free. The battery will play mp3s for 6 hours - or more if I enable power saving, but I can't be arsed to.
Cost CA $401 (including recycling tax) at the drug store. As long as it doesn't break or get stolen, or I suddenly decide to downgrade to Windows, I can't see the need to buy another one. And when I do, a "good-enough" machine will probably be better and cheaper. Same as phones.
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Before we jump to breaking a monopoly first we need to define what it is to be a monopoly and how it is being used improperly. Google has many monopolies, a monopoly on advertising, a monopoly on the mobile app space, and both of those are actively being abused.
However Search engines are completely fungible. People are free to use whatever search engine they want. Google represents 90% of the Search market, but it is not the default option on any desktop OS. It is only the default option on a subset of brow
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How? Apple doesn't get a penny from the sale of a used iPhone. The problem is, the newest iPhones don't have new stuff that people feel it's worth the price to upgrade. Mature tech is mature tech. "Good-enough" is doing the same thing as happened in other tech devices, like laptops and desktops.
My 5-year-old laptop has 8 gig of RAM - I don't even need half that (wipes Windows). It's a quad core with 2 threads per core - again, still overkill. The 500-gig hard drive more than 400 gigs free. The battery will play mp3s for 6 hours - or more if I enable power saving, but I can't be arsed to.
Cost CA $401 (including recycling tax) at the drug store. As long as it doesn't break or get stolen, or I suddenly decide to downgrade to Windows, I can't see the need to buy another one. And when I do, a "good-enough" machine will probably be better and cheaper. Same as phones.