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Why does Apple and Google as a duopoly get to determine what businesses must do and not do to exist? (from a practical perspective not a legal one) For me that
by trident5000 6y ago
Why does Apple and Google as a duopoly get to determine what businesses must do and not do to exist? (from a practical perspective not a legal one) For me that's the real question.
- bdamm 6y agoBecause Apple and Google produced viable platforms that people want. Microsoft, Blackberry, and Palm all attempted to do something similar, and the market didn't coalesce around their offerings. Even Amazon tried with kindle/fire. Part of the reason this happens is that developers only have so much ability to diversify, so this is a natural marketplace where only a few big players can survive. The Internet of the 1990's is still alive by the way. Anyone can put up their message on a website provided by a host of their choice.
- trident5000 6y agoDo you think it had anything to do with buying up competitors and technology that propelled them to domination as well as using their web of other services as an advantage? Even if everything is fair do you think free market theory cares about how they arrived at a duopoly?
- bdamm 6y agoI certainly didn't claim it was "fair". I stated that developers are going to coalesce around a small number of providers in a similar space. They clearly have a dominant position now. Their disruption won't come from phones, just like their rise didn't come from phones either.