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I think government should not be breaking up big successful companies only because they control >50% market share. What Microsoft did with IE was nasty but Goog
by mrkramer 6y ago
I think government should not be breaking up big successful companies only because they control >50% market share. What Microsoft did with IE was nasty but Google acquiring DoubleClick, AdMob, YouTube etc. is not nasty at all. If Google for example made the same exact product like YouTube and then leveraged its massive resources and distribution channel to destroy YouTube and claim the market share that would be problematic but otherwise I don't see a problem.
Punishing the best student in class only because he or she is the best is not cool at all.
- jldugger 6y ago> Google acquiring DoubleClick Allowing that was probably a mistake. IDK if it's possible to undo, but letting the two biggest advertisers merge was is like almost definitionally anticompetitive.
- mrkramer 6y agoWhy they didn't block the merger when it happened? they could've but now it is too late. The same thing would be splitting up Facebook and Instagram when they all already so interconnected.
- sumedh 6y ago> If Google for example made the same exact product like YouTube and then leveraged its massive resources and distribution channel to destroy YouTube Like what it did to Firefox?
- mrkramer 6y agoIs Mozilla for profit or non profit I don't even know but they didn't complain back in the day when Google Chrome took over.