Want to rescue rural America? Bust monopolies

Re:Want to rescue rural America? Bust monopolies by maxxxxx on Sunday April 23, 2017 @10:17PM (#14181520)

I am not sure how to pull this off in practice but I think it would be healthy for an economy if companies couldn't grow beyond a certain size. Once companies get too big they pretty much kill new and innovative companies. Just look at how quickly small companies in the 70s and early 80s innovated around personal computing and how little innovation is happening in the smart phone or search engine area now because Google and Apple are pretty much trampling over the small guys.

Again, I have no idea how to do this in practice.

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Re:Want to rescue rural America? Bust monopolies by Network2020 on Monday April 24, 2017 @06:04AM (#14183062)

Hmmm I believe that the Google/Apple smartphone issue is squarely the result of developers (the same ones who complain about Android and IOS). Manufacturers could create smartphone after smartphone, but if developers don't build apps to make the phones attractive, consumers aren't interested in purchasing. Developers, unfortunately, are the ones blocking out other smartphone makers.

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Re:Want to rescue rural America? Bust monopolies by maxxxxx on Monday April 24, 2017 @01:20PM (#14186103)

It's a feedback loop. Without developers a platform can't thrive but without users of the platform the developers can't afford to write apps for the platform.

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