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They don’t own: - Bumble - Badoo - Eharmony - Zoosk - ChrstianMingle - JDate - tons of international and niche sites and apps - many, many others The i
by Brushfire 6y ago
They don’t own:
- Bumble
- Badoo
- Eharmony
- Zoosk
- ChrstianMingle
- JDate
- tons of international and niche sites and apps
- many, many others
The idea that there is monopoly power being leveraged here to prevent other dating sites from being started and grown and be successful has very little evidence behind it.
- bilbo0s 6y agoApple owns far less of the phone and mobile app market than Match Group owns of the dating market. Should Apple be on the list? If you agree that Apple should be on the list, then Match Group should without question be on the list.
- stale2002 6y agoThe reasons why monopolies are bad isn't automatically due to the size of the market that a company controls. Instead, the reason why they are bad, is due to things like barriers to entry, and the anti competitive practices that they enact. For dating apps, I don't see how match group is putting up anything that could be described as a barrier to entry, for other dating apps. Whereas Apple is absolutely doing things that effect competition in the market, by, for example, preventing competing app stores on the Iphone. Therefore, Apple's actions are much worse than Match Groups, even though they have a smaller percentage of the market.