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Do monopolies of this scale are ever overthrown? MS in desktop OS, Intel in desktop and server chips. IBM is still a monopoly in mainframe market(not sure). It'
by blackoil 9y ago
Do monopolies of this scale are ever overthrown? MS in desktop OS, Intel in desktop and server chips. IBM is still a monopoly in mainframe market(not sure). It's just that new powerful industry in terms of mobile, internet services, social media have come up.
American Tobacco, Bell, Standard Oil and too some extent MSFT are all gone because of govt. actions.
FB has already successfully maneuvered industry change to mobile. It bought in its way into mobile apps and communication platforms. So FB won't be replaced by mastodon or Signal, but by an industry level shift which FB misses and can't buy in.
- wilsonnb 9y agoYou're correct, IBM is more of a monopoly in the mainframe market now than ever before. As far as I know, no one else makes mainframe hardware anymore aside from storage racks you can use with an IBM mainframe.