The evidence is piling up – Silicon Valley is being destroyed(businessinsider.com)

27 pointsby mjbellantonivor 9 Jahren0 comments

The evidence is piling up – Silicon Valley is being destroyed

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-evidence-is-piling-up-silicon-valley-is-being-destroyed-2017-4

3 comments

tomohawkvor 9 Jahren

When AT&T ran things, they owned everything connected to the phone network. You leased your phone - you couldn't purchase it. When the telephone answering machine was invented, you weren't allowed to hook it up because it wasn't an AT&T device.

Things are different now. We kind of own our phones, and we kind of have a choice of what goes on them, but who really controls them?

mathattackvor 9 Jahren

Innovation within Good Ol' AT&T was great. Innovation that made it to customers was sparse.

mattnewtonvor 9 Jahren

The sky is falling because of monopoly? What does that have to do with the juicer? People invested in bad ideas before this age of monopolies that the author is worried about, so I'm not buying the "nothing but scraps" argument.

I'm not saying I disagree that tech companies should be brought up on anti trust charges, and in some cases broken up. But the author's arguments don't make any sense to me.

11thEarlOfMarvor 9 Jahren

" ...it [Google] buys a company a week at this point. "

Y Combinator funds +/- 4 companies a week. Seems pretty symbiotic from my view.