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Duopoly is when the two heterogenous companies coöperate to form a monopoly. That was Wintel. A cartel is when a small number of homogenous companies share the
by braythwayt 7y ago
Duopoly is when the two heterogenous companies coöperate to form a monopoly. That was Wintel.
A cartel is when a small number of homogenous companies share the market while ostensibly competing with each other, but coöperate to erect barriers to anyone else getting into the market.
If Apple and Google block other companies from getting into the mobile device business, they would be a cartel.
- Bakary 7y agoDid you start using that spelling from reading the New Yorker?
- braythwayt 7y agoWhich spelling?
- ncmncm 7y agoProbably the diæresis: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-... The "æ" is a whole nother thing.
- braythwayt 7y agoI was taught about the diaeresis way back in the 1970s in high school English. But I didn’t embrace it until the late 80s when I started writing with a Macintosh, and read “The Mac is Not a Typewriter,” a great little book. I've always liked typography and graphic design, and I enjoy anachronisms like ligatures, alternate letterforms, drop capitals, visual justification, latin phrases, and so on ad nauseum.
- ncmncm 7y agoad nause-am. I am particularly fond of the looped st and sc ligatures.