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This trend to vertical integration is very dangerous. We should not allow the people making tech to control the whole pipeline unless we want a permanent underc
by digitaltrees 1mo ago
This trend to vertical integration is very dangerous. We should not allow the people making tech to control the whole pipeline unless we want a permanent underclass.
- mattstir 1mo agoSomething something Apple. For what it's worth though, I agree that companies _subsuming_ others to obtain complete vertical market capture has been a very dangerous trend.
- digitaltrees 1mo agoApple isnt an analog though, in order to be a relevant analogy they would need to buy Intel, TSMC and ASML and "commit" to preserving access to other people chip manufacturing. As it is, they are guilty of reserving capacity so other producers cant access current generation tech and have to weight a cycle, which I would argue should be blocked as anticompetitive by regulators but we have a perverse definition of free markets now that defines market consolidation and monopoly as markets working instead of recognizing they are a sign that a free market has been captured and destroyed. rant over.
- thunkshift1 1mo agoThe hyperscalers and OS vendors are doing. Why shouldnt hardware oems.