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I'm not a big fan of where the tech giants have brought the internet... the internet today has become too much of a walled garden and there is not enough compet

I'm not a big fan of where the tech giants have brought the internet... the internet today has become too much of a walled garden and there is not enough competition and there's not enough cooperation between entities. But we live in a rather chaotic time geopolitically and I think it's good to have these gigantic entities in our country that other countries are wary of crossing too much.

hugh4life 8y ago
One thing the tech giants could do is collude to compete greater with one another... there are too many advantages to the dominance in an market segment and so they don't bother competing with one another. Google+ was a bit half-assed... and it seems like they don't care to compete in social networking anymore. Facebook is doing something with video but it doesn't compare with youtube. I would like to see google attempt to create a social network comparable with facebook and I'd like to see facebook attempt to create a search engine or video sharing service comparable to google or youtube. Rather than break them up, force them to compete with each other in each other's dominant market. And then if we get a super giant then break it up.
- ravenstine 8y ago
  > I would like to see google attempt to create a social network comparable with facebook and I'd like to see facebook attempt to create a search engine or video sharing service comparable to google or youtube. Forgive me but... how is that better than getting companies to spin off divisions or to simply not do anticompetitive things? Google is marginally better than Facebook, and what you're suggesting seems to be a switcharoo between two turd sandwiches where effectively nothing changes. Facebook could compete in the video space(god help us), but that doesn't mean we're going to get better video services.

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I'm not a big fan of where the tech giants have brought the internet... the internet today has become too much of a walled garden and there is not enough compet

by hugh4life 8y ago

hugh4life 8y ago
One thing the tech giants could do is collude to compete greater with one another... there are too many advantages to the dominance in an market segment and so they don't bother competing with one another. Google+ was a bit half-assed... and it seems like they don't care to compete in social networking anymore. Facebook is doing something with video but it doesn't compare with youtube. I would like to see google attempt to create a social network comparable with facebook and I'd like to see facebook attempt to create a search engine or video sharing service comparable to google or youtube. Rather than break them up, force them to compete with each other in each other's dominant market. And then if we get a super giant then break it up.
- ravenstine 8y ago
  > I would like to see google attempt to create a social network comparable with facebook and I'd like to see facebook attempt to create a search engine or video sharing service comparable to google or youtube. Forgive me but... how is that better than getting companies to spin off divisions or to simply not do anticompetitive things? Google is marginally better than Facebook, and what you're suggesting seems to be a switcharoo between two turd sandwiches where effectively nothing changes. Facebook could compete in the video space(god help us), but that doesn't mean we're going to get better video services.