Few Match Google; Does That Make It a Monopoly?(online.wsj.com)
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Few Match Google; Does That Make It a Monopoly?
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Question marks, an easy way to create hyperbolic headlines?
Google offers a free, unbundled, high-quality product in a ravenously competitive marketplace. To call it a monopoly is to mock the very concept.
Google offers a free, unbundled, high-quality product in a ravenously competitive marketplace. To call it a monopoly is to mock the very concept.
Did you read the article? He's somewhat debunking the claims that it's a true monopoly that should be considered anti-trust. I'm also annoyed with question headlines, but this one is basically answered with a "not really".
Likewise Apple.
Unlike Google, Apple can at times be overtly anticompetitive; if it was determined that Apple was defending a monopoly in online music, there could be trouble.
maybe not yet a monopoly...but soon.
(Google-hate keeps flashing me back to the late 90s, which is funny because it took Microsoft's loss of relevance and power - despite escaping meaningful anti-trust proceedings - to stick GOOG with the role of tech bogeyman.)