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Well, yeah, there are supermarkets involved. But that's hardly all of it. There are to vertically- and horizontally-integrated monpolies, both running their o
by dredmorbius 3y ago
Well, yeah, there are supermarkets involved. But that's hardly all of it.
There are to vertically- and horizontally-integrated monpolies, both running their own supermarket chains (app stores), with their own real estate monopoly networks (brand A and i smartphones), each of which grows and processes its own food and consumable products (software apps), as well as the logistical back-ends for distributing and managing that (brand A and i smartphone OSes), in a market in which other independent vendors exist, and Brand G pays brand A (which offers OS and smartphones i, not A) an absolutely gobstopping premium to both not promote third-party products and refrain from developing and promoting its own product, not by buying preferential shelf placement but by buying all shelf-space, by default.
Which suddenly looks a lot less copacetic.