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To counter the dominance of "Big Tech", the governments should seriously start breaking chunks out of them. For many giants, there are some obvious break-up ide
by RestlessMind 6y ago
To counter the dominance of "Big Tech", the governments should seriously start breaking chunks out of them. For many giants, there are some obvious break-up ideas:
1. Amazon: AWS, Hardware/Alexa and Retail. Ads may belong to Retail or may be a separate entity.
2. Google: (Apart from all the non-Google Alphabet companies which are already separate) YouTube, GCP/Apps, Hardware, Search (Web, Image, Maps, etc). Ads should be split between YT and Search.
3. Facebook: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, VR. Ads can be split (or copied) to each of the first 3.
4. Microsoft: Windows, Azure/Office, Gaming, Bing / Ads, LinkedIn.
5. Apple: While hard to disentangle, Apple's control over App store and iOS (30% cut, forbidding competing browsers etc) should be weakened.
I am willing to bet my personal money that such break-up or weakening of Big Tech will generate far more value in the tech sector in long run (say by buying NASDAQ and holding it for the next 10 years).