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What are the four monopolies?
by jtbayly 6y ago
What are the four monopolies?
- elwell 6y agoSearch, Email, Maps (they own Waze), YouTube
- dgellow 6y agoI would say: Search, Map, Translate, Gmail. Though technically they also have YouTube and do monetize it.
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- dfabulich 6y agoSearch, Maps, YouTube, Chrome. (They all have competitors, some more successful than others.) A bunch of people have listed Gmail on their lists, but Gmail is not even close to a monopoly, even in consumer email. https://email-verify.my-addr.com/list-of-most-popular-email-domains.php https://email-verify.my-addr.com/list-of-most-popular-email-...
- dgellow 6y agoI have 2 remarkes: - that's from 2016 - that seems to be worldwide (I see for example swiss and french providers in the list), which isn't necessarily relevant. Gmail can be a monopoly in the US for example, while not being one worldwide. Unfortunately I cannot find better numbers, if someone does that would be interesting to discuss.
- ashconnor 6y agoSearch, browser, email and maps.
- disease 6y agoSearch, the browser, email, non-streaming video are the only things that come to mind.
- perlgeek 6y agosearch, maps, mail (gmail), video (youtube).
- domkema 6y agoIf I had to guess what GP is referring to: search, maps, email, and browser. While I'm sure we could disagree on if Google actually has a monopoly in these domains, I think it's obvious they have a _substantial_ foothold.
- secondbreakfast 6y agoPretty much! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23632044 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23632044
- jcranmer 6y agoI just want to say that I love how the response to this comment is several lists of 4, with search being the only one present in all of them.
- secondbreakfast 6y agoThe 4 I was thinking of: Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube Chrome is arguably a monopoly if you segment desktop web traffic, but iOS Safari is such a large percentage that Safari can't be ignored. People will disagree with email - but I challenge you to go look at email threads you're on and see what % of the emails are @gmail.com - not to mention G Suite addresses you don't know are Gmail. Outside of enterprise, there's no alternative. Not bad either that Android and Chrome are duopolies at this point.
- lostmsu 6y agoI actually don't think Gmail (as other comments here claim) is nearly as much "monopoly" as YouTube. There are many email providers, people use whatever.
- dhdersch 6y agocloud computing is one of them /s