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Facebook owns Instagram, Whatsapp, and dozens other platforms. Sure, Facebook proper is bleeding users, but the platform gaining the most users right now is Ins
by furst 8y ago
Facebook owns Instagram, Whatsapp, and dozens other platforms. Sure, Facebook proper is bleeding users, but the platform gaining the most users right now is Instagram, which is still Facebook.
Google would be fairly easy to break up among Alphabet subsidiaries, and Amazon could be split among Amazon.com, AWS, and Whole Foods.
She actually gets fairly specific about what she her plan is if you actually read the medium article linked in the first paragraph of the OP.
- basch 8y agoIf youre going to break up Amazon, AWS, and Whole Foods for being vertically integrated, how can you not break up the oil companies or the agriculture companies or the chemical companies.
- SamuelAdams 8y agoYou could also argue that Apple is "too vertically integrated" and separate them into either a Laptop / Phone company or a Hardware / software company. Or break out music / media / Beats into it's own company too.
- basch 8y agoI think it would be easier to argue that Apple is being anticompetitive by having undocumented API's only their apps can use, and by not allowing end users to change default mail, map, and browser apps etc.
- bhl 8y agoThat would be horizontal integration. But that’s even a hard argument to make since Apple doesn’t have a monopoly or large market share of any of those segments — remember how Apple’s growth was supposed to slow down since their customer base has been saturated? Maybe luxury products but that’s a stretch. Apple isn’t vertically integrated since they outsource some of their manufacturing and assembly to other companies.