> As much as I hate ads, their tight control and singular policy change has made multi-billion dollar ripples in the industry. That's a sign of a monopoly. Yea

> As much as I hate ads, their tight control and singular policy change has made multi-billion dollar ripples in the industry. That's a sign of a monopoly. Yeah, it might be good for the user but a company making a change that shakes the industry like this is worrying. Worse bit is, it helps them as well as they have an ads product which might do well when others can't do better personalised advertising. > Both of them sell movies and music and are morphing into studios. They're both trying to get into payments and dominate fintech. This is too broad to compete with. Agreed. There is no way other companies can meaningfully compete with them. Look at Apple and Airpods. The revenue just Airpod makes for Appple is multiples of revenue of Sennheiser and Bose combined.