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Toyota aren't a monopoly and the auto industry is one of the most regulated on earth
by wp381640 6y ago
Toyota 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.