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> I think platform companies, like Apple and Qt, should not be able to impose such a high percentage as gatekeepers. I don't understand your complain. So there
by rumanator 7y ago
> I think platform companies, like Apple and Qt, should not be able to impose such a high percentage as gatekeepers.
I don't understand your complain. So there was no service available to the public, and people at Qt decided to invest their time and resources to provide a service where there was zero. Do they deserve criticism for doing something?
- black_puppydog 7y agoI think pointing out that virtually all the (near-) monopolies we see in the IT market place are (naturally) used to extract significant rent, that this is a canonical case of market failure and demands some sort of corrective is a valid point to make when yet another market sees a player trying to establish themselves as such a monopoly.
- rumanator 7y agoYou can't pull the "market failure" card when someone just launches a service where there was none.
- black_puppydog 7y agoI can totally point out that in similar situations, the result was a market failure, and that it might be good to do something about that before it happens again. Now, to put up a straw-man against that, why not wait to see, usually these platforms fail pretty quickly anyhow? Well, if the outcome is either failure of the platform, or success of the platform by capturing (nearly) all of the market, then why no regulate it?