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People attribute great leadership to Satya, but to me it seems to be about be willing to fight with regulators, and funnily enough the regulators haven't been w
by null_investor 2y ago
People attribute great leadership to Satya, but to me it seems to be about be willing to fight with regulators, and funnily enough the regulators haven't been working so much recently.
Just have a look at the size that Google, Microsoft, Meta others have got, not because they have a outstanding product (like Cuda), but because they can use their dominant market position to buy smaller businesses and monetize their products as part of a bundle (Whatsapp, Activision Blizzard acquisition and the list goes on). Or just build a new product and shove it to their customers, like with MS Teams/Threads.
The US government seems to have actually aided those US companies to keep doing their monopolist practices, with many other countries around the world fighting against them alone, like Europe.
The situation is so bad right now, that Europe itself is now distancing itself from US to potentially also fight even harder against those companies, which bring barely any jobs to Europe, but have market share in the 90s and beyond.
I'm pretty certain that companies in Europe could build its own Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, their own android fork etc. They don't do it because for a long time Europe has been a US pseudo-vassal.
- Synaesthesia 2y agoYes the US government is definitely assisting US tech companies, and their global monipoly. Look at how they went after Huawei.
- vinyl7 2y agoAfter WW2, the US was the manufacturing superpower of the world, and it made the US very wealthy. China has since taken that spot, and the US didn't have any major play in the global economy. Starting with Obama, the US started investing heavily into tech via regulatory dismemberment and fiscal policy (ZIRP). The tech monopoloy is intended so that the US has control of a market in the global economy.