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> Start with monopolies: tech companies are gigantic and they don’t compete, they just take over whole sectors, either on their own or in cartels. >Google and
by baron816 9mo ago
> Start with monopolies: tech companies are gigantic and they don’t compete, they just take over whole sectors, either on their own or in cartels.
>Google and Meta control the ad market. Google and Apple control the mobile market,
“Tech companies are monopolies”, proceeds to describe how tech companies compete with each other.
- hippo22 9mo agoA market with only two players isn't much of a market.
- NitpickLawyer 9mo agoTBF on the LLM side we currently have 4 big players, and a bunch of smaller ones. Plus a healthy bunch of open models, lagging ~1y behind SotA. The best thing for us consumers is that it stays this way. Any of them winning would be bad in general.
- ares623 9mo agoOr nowadays, any number of players. Now that market data is made available by brokers and decisions can be colluded based on such data.
- hamdingers 9mo ago> or in cartels