>It’s kind of like standard oil buying up the railroads so they owned the supply chain and no other oil could be moved. kind of, but not really at all. Google

>It’s kind of like standard oil buying up the railroads so they owned the supply chain and no other oil could be moved. kind of, but not really at all. Google and Amazon aren't preventing anybody else from using their services - getting other people to use their services is kind of their whole business model. If you want to compare Google or Amazon to transporting oil on railroads, it'd be like if the company that owned nearly all the railroads owned a couple of oil wells (but not all of them) and still transported everybody else's oil for a fair price.