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How are Netflix or Apple a monopoly?

• deleted 6y ago
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• cma 6y ago
  Apple has monopoly dollar share in app spending.
  • UnpossibleJim 6y ago
    I think people forget they have a nasty habit of buying companies and absorbing them or dismantling them all together (not unlike Google). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Apple https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisit...
• JohnJamesRambo 6y ago
  I'm very pro antitrust and I don't think Netflix is a monopoly at all. I often wonder how they will survive all the free streaming that I love (Pluto TV, Peacock, Tubi...) that is popping up on my tv every day. We cancelled long ago and don't even miss it. They have the monopoly on making crappy low production value Hallmark Channel or Lifetime quality series and movies that I don't want to watch. I might subscribe for a month when Stranger Things comes out again and then binge it and cancel again. I like watching actual movies and documentaries and I already have Prime, which has much more of those. Which raises a question about Amazon and antitrust...
• earthboundkid 6y ago
  Netflix is trying to make vertical monopoly on production and distribution. It should be split and regulated, so that production companies cannot own distribution companies. It's a PITA as a consumer that I need to subscribe to a bunch of different services because all of them have exclusive content that they are using to try to win the monopoly wars. The government should just nip the war in the bud and say that you have to choose to be a producer or a distributor, but not both, and then shows will flow out to all the streaming companies, which will have to compete on service rather than selection.