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Between the financials on one side, vs. graveyard, innovation by buying startups, dropping "don't be evil", and ads everywhere on the other, I don't know if you
by ben_w 3mo ago
Between the financials on one side, vs. graveyard, innovation by buying startups, dropping "don't be evil", and ads everywhere on the other, I don't know if you're suggesting this is good or bad.
- rvz 3mo agoBoth Google and SpaceX have a near monopoly in the services that they operate that have high demand.
- ben_w 3mo ago> services that they operate that have high demand. "high" doing heavy lifting there, I think. SpaceX has a lot of demand for rocketry… from itself, in the form of Starlink. Starlink has segments where it's a near monopoly but those segments are low-demand, and segments where it's high demand but those segments aren't a monopoly. Outside Starlink, there's not a particularly vast mass of stuff people want to launch right now.