Describing tech platforms as a place where users work for no pay is quite an exaggeration. Apple and Microsoft for example do not conform to this business model

Describing tech platforms as a place where users work for no pay is quite an exaggeration. Apple and Microsoft for example do not conform to this business model. In fact the business models amongst the tech giants are so varied to group them all into “cloud capital” is ridiculously reductionist, and gives grift vibes to just capitalize on the current change in attitudes toward big tech. Honestly this article is so unspecific as to feel that it’s saying nothing. Maybe that’s on purpose to market for the book but I can’t tell. In the end, the pursuit of monopolies currently is the exact same mission that all capitalists have had for generations, he fails to make a distinction in my opinion between then and now. I think the current state of the world can still be described using the rules of a capitalist system, and I fee that competition between the tech giants more fierce now than it has been in the past decade.