Amazon squeezed sellers and jacked up prices.
Google stamped out competitors in search.
Facebook used buy-or-bury schemes to crush competition.
Apple used its immense power to kill off challengers.
All four face major antitrust cases from the US government.
It's about time.
But Bork's book!
"We must escape tiny vision.
Our final irony is that the Earth's core will last for more than 90 billion years, but the sun will burn out in 5 billion.
But just think of it.
Instead of planning for tomorrow or next week or next year, or 20 or 100 years, humanity could begin to plan for billions."
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Sorry Robert. Don’t take a shot like that at Apple till you remember the days of Microsoft back in the 80’s and 90’s - they destroyed competing technologies, companies, standards and people without hesitation.
The idea that the DOJ wants to blame them for the crappy Amazon Fire phone and shite Windows phone failing is laughable and says to me the people who put this case together at the DOJ are clueless.
@kbsez @rbreich My partner had a Windows phone and the UI was far better than iOS or Android at the time. Everyone I know who owned one was sad when they went away, everyone I know who never used them thinks they were awful.
They died because they had no app ecosystem. You couldn’t do mobile banking on them, you couldn’t watch any of the major septreaming services, and so on. I don’t think Apple was to blame here, but there definitely were market distortions. For example, in the UK, the BBC provided an iPlayer app for the dominant platforms, using taxpayers’ money to promote a monopoly.
@rbreich The antitrust cases are unlikely to change anything.
American legislation does not equip the government with the tools necessary to solve this problem. There needs to be laws that proactively protect competition.
They were unable to stop the Microsoft acquisition of Activision because our antitrust legislation is opaque, reactive, and toothless.
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