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It depends on how stupid the regulators are - the one with the google name will win. Seriously people - domain names and awareness matter ans you can't just par

• scarface74 6y ago
  We already know how incapable the regulators are. 20 years after they went after MS for their dominance in personal computer operating systems, productivity software and browsers, MS is still dominant in two and the third doesn’t matter to anyone except for Google. MS had the highest market cap in the US in 2000. As of today it is #3. The government had a monopoly suit against IBM in 1969 and finally withdrew it in 1983 and nothing came of it. People in tech have been wanting the government to go after Big Tech for years. Four of the CEOs show up for Congressional hearings and then the government goes after...TikTok and WeChat instead.
  • dylan604 6y ago
    >People in tech have been wanting the government to go after Big Tech for years. Four of the CEOs show up for Congressional hearings and then the government goes after...TikTok and WeChat instead. The Big4 are US based companies. WeChat & TikTok are foreign owned companies, and that country is currently a safe play to bash. The gov't can go after the low hanging fruit so they can have something point at to say they are doing something about evil tech.
  • int_19h 6y ago
    A big part of it is that trust busting in US is just not what it used to be, since getting borked back in late 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Antitrust_Paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Antitrust_Paradox