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which parts of a toyota must not be made by toyota though? tires? air bags? seats? audio? air con?
by lazylizard 6y ago
which parts of a toyota must not be made by toyota though? tires? air bags? seats? audio? air con?
- wp381640 6y agoToyota aren't a monopoly and the auto industry is one of the most regulated on earth
- nitinreddy88 6y agoMicrosoft is not monopoly by any means now.
- gsich 6y ago90%+ on the OS speaks otherwise. Yeah technically it's not a monopoly because there is Linux.
- AuthorizedCust 6y agoAnd Mac OS, which is about 14% of desktops?
- foepys 6y agoMacOS never ever as a 14% desktop market share. Maybe in some states in the US but worldwide it's below 5%. It might reach 14% if you include iOS.
- AuthorizedCust 6y agoIt's about 14% per https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide.
- folmar 6y agoMore like 7%: https://macdailynews.com/2019/10/10/apples-mac-holds-7-6-of-worldwide-personal-computer-market/ https://macdailynews.com/2019/10/10/apples-mac-holds-7-6-of-... This is actual sales, visibility on the Internet is skewed off by a number of limitations.
- gsich 6y agoMore like 4% depending on what statistic you'll believe.
- AuthorizedCust 6y agoIt's about 14% per https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide.
- lazylizard 6y agolinux devices far outnumber windows ones...
- dybber 6y agoIt’s not on OS, but on Word/Excel they are considered monopoly in this context
- missedthecue 6y agoYou might be surprised at the market share of Google docs
- gsich 6y agoGoogle Docs can't really compete with the MS feature set.
- AsyncAwait 6y agoIt can for 90% of users, I'd say.
- singhrac 6y agoI guess I implied that I think they're a monopoly in the area of productivity software, which isn't entirely fair since Google Suite exists. But in my shallow opinion Google Sheets is not really a competitor to Excel.
- throwaway201103 6y agoFive years ago I would say you are right. But Google Sheets is now good enough for all but the most serious Excel power users, and I'm sure they're still improving it.
- dybber 6y agoWord/Excel is the defacto default across industry. It’s a monopoly. Microsoft is using their monopoly on office suite to get a competitive advantage on chat/video collaboration software. It’s like when Google uses their monopoly on search to highlight their own price comparisons in the top part of the result section, thus being anti competitive towards other price comparison companies (e.g. Pricerunner)
- Rapzid 6y agoIn the year 2000. I have barely touched office over the past decade; been using Google Workspace. My past four employers have used Google. I have been using it personally, at work, for longer. My weightlifting club using Google sheets. My mortgage sheets were Google sheets.
- devtosales 6y agoI’ve worked at SAP, Oracle, and a few large consultancies. Most of my customers are in the enterprise size range. Office is used heavily by the larger companies of the world and therefore is used by their software and service vendors. The only company I’ve ever worked with that was totally google drive was an American startup. Office is still very much the dominant suite of software across most companies although there are plenty of smaller American companies trying to work without it. I personally can’t tolerate the the lack of basic formatting that docs offers are how limited sheets and slides are. Just adding section numbers in docs needs an add on and if your collaborators don’t have the same add on they just add new sections without numbering. I can’t imagine large documents without numbering...
- Rapzid 6y agoIt's not a monopoly and far from it.
- devtosales 6y agoHow far exactly? Most businesses use word.
- throwaway201103 6y agoMost of those things probably are not made by Toyota. Maybe the seats are.
- lazylizard 6y agoyes indeed. the question is whether its ok for toyota to make tires. at which point is it no longer part of the car?
- throwaway201103 6y agoI'm not sure, but why would they want to? It's a very mature product, with many established competing manufacturers, and not much room for any real improvement or profit margin. If there were already half a dozen Slacks in use and they were all interchangable and customers were indifferent to which one was on their computer, would Microsoft be jumping in with their own product?
- lazylizard 6y agoshould laws prevent them though? is toyota. or microsoft. allowed to make more than 1 product?
- mstipetic 6y agoSure you can, but treat them as a standalone product. Currently companies (like Amazon with AWS) are using massively profitable products to dump prices in totally unrelated industries and kill off the competition. Not to mention companies like Uber using massive amounts of VC money to break laws and social contracts in whole countries despite no goal of actually being profitable. Medium did the same when providing free access and then turning on the paywall after that. There are many more examples.
- lazylizard 6y agoas a consumer i find it a brilliant deal? Softbank is subsidising my cab ride!
- hedora 6y agoThe classic analogy says Toyota shouldn’t be allowed to own the roads. These days, bundling fueling stations (Tesla) and access to streaming audio services (some head units) arguably crosses the line. Some cars won’t start if you replace the radio with a third party unit. I’m not sure when that started being a common thing.