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You can replace Google/Amazon/Facebook in seconds. You can not change your cable provider in a large number of areas, and even many of the ones that you can, y
by ApolloFortyNine 8y ago
You can replace Google/Amazon/Facebook in seconds.
You can not change your cable provider in a large number of areas, and even many of the ones that you can, you only have 2 choices between Comcast/Verizon/ATT/Centurylink.
And, miraculously, as soon as a competitor arrives, you see prices drop and speeds increase. It happened in just about every area Google fiber rolled out to.
Comcast also charge $10 for an extra 50GB of data after hitting the cap, and Comcast just happens to own a major network (which if you stream your tv shows, you won't be watching). It just seems incredibly clear that Comcast and other cable companies are clearly taking advantage of their monopoly status at the expense of customers, which is exactly when trust busting is supposed to come into play.
- taurath 8y agoYou're both arguing like its an either-or proposition, and arguing over which one is the absolute best ensures that nothing will get done.
- bhl 8y ago> You can replace Google/Amazon/Facebook in seconds. This is largely false: look at market share of all their competitors — network effects are really hard to replace.
- bryan_w 8y agoPeople said the same thing about AOL, Yahoo, and Myspace
- ApolloFortyNine 8y agoGoogle doesn't even have a network effect, they just have the World's best search engine. If it ceased to be the World's best, you could leave immediately. Amazon you can replace by just ordering from any of the other countless online vendors. Facebook is harder to replace, but people thought Myspace would be around forever for the same reasons.