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What's funny to me is that so many people complain about large tech companies eating up every product category and preventing competition. But when they later k
by protomyth 8y ago
What's funny to me is that so many people complain about large tech companies eating up every product category and preventing competition. But when they later kill these products, people complain all the same. Which is it?
Both. They expanded into an area and killed the competition then killed their product and left a void. See Google Reader for the life cycle.
- zapita 8y agoYes, exactly. Those are not contradictory. If anything, it makes it more obvious why unchecked Big Tech expansion into every market, subsidized by their core monopolies, is a bad thing for consumers in the long run.
- beaner 8y agoAnd now readers still aren't popular... There is no big replacement that people are using. Google didn't kill the category, it was already dead.