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Part of it is these companies should be paying WAY MORE taxes back into the system. Having large tech companies IS a good thing because it basically leads to n

by mrlala 6y ago

Part of it is these companies should be paying WAY MORE taxes back into the system. Having large tech companies IS a good thing because it basically leads to natural tech standards and advances things. I'll just stick with mobile area- we have iOS & Android. What if we didn't have ANY big tech companies and there were 10+ mobile OSs. Sound great for competition? Yeah I guess. But in reality, it would never have allowed mobile to take off. How do you put resources into developing an app when you have to make it work on 10+ OSs? All with their different quirks? It's hard enough with 2. So I think there are a lot of advantages of a small number of large tech firms.. HOWEVER. When they are able to accumulate 100+ BILLION DOLLARS it can only be clear that they are NOT contributing back into the system to "pay" for their quasi-monopolies.

cblconfederate 6y ago
We have 1 HTML and 1 CSS standard, despite dozens of browsers. In fact we have more fractiousness in the mobile space than in the web.
wazoox 6y ago
In all cases monopolies are bad. If you see it from a socialist POV, a monopoly should only be public and democratically controlled; if you look at it from the capitalist/libertarian side, any actor who can manipulates a market by itself prevents this market from working, stifles competition and should be broken up. If there was a public, open standard such as Android (without google apps), many makers from around the globe could compete by shipping their hardware and a variety of software options. It happens only partially because of Google heavy hand, but it would work perfectly well without google (as it does in India and China).
whimsicalism 6y ago
Large tech companies/the oligopoly we have now erodes standards because there are vendors with significant enough market power that they can make break-away standards, hurting the overall effort.

by mrlala 6y ago

cblconfederate 6y ago

We have 1 HTML and 1 CSS standard, despite dozens of browsers. In fact we have more fractiousness in the mobile space than in the web.

wazoox 6y ago

In all cases monopolies are bad. If you see it from a socialist POV, a monopoly should only be public and democratically controlled; if you look at it from the capitalist/libertarian side, any actor who can manipulates a market by itself prevents this market from working, stifles competition and should be broken up. If there was a public, open standard such as Android (without google apps), many makers from around the globe could compete by shipping their hardware and a variety of software options. It happens only partially because of Google heavy hand, but it would work perfectly well without google (as it does in India and China).

whimsicalism 6y ago

Large tech companies/the oligopoly we have now erodes standards because there are vendors with significant enough market power that they can make break-away standards, hurting the overall effort.