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Though collusion between two tech giants is obviously distasteful and anticompetitive, how is this ultimately addressed? Sure, governments could force Google a
by evancoop 5y ago
Though collusion between two tech giants is obviously distasteful and anticompetitive, how is this ultimately addressed? Sure, governments could force Google and Apple to break into smaller entities...but as long as humans still largely choose the best software, there will still be network effects that lead to dominant players emerging. In turn, there will be new giants.
So...either there are general paradigms/regulations/principles to apply, or we'll simply return to this state repeatedly, no?
- exikyut 5y agoReturning to this state repeatedly, aka a cyclic system, isn't all that bad, if it means we ultimately don't exceed the current threshold. IMHO the collective furor necessary to drive development in the space (eg, Google and Apple both maintain whole web browsers) is necessarily weakly-coordinated at scale and will probably always inevitably cue this sort of thing to rise up. *shrug*