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Re:George Soros: Facebook and Google are a menace to society by CryptoPunk on Friday January 26, 2018 @06:02AM (#16238292)
Android breaking Windows' monopoly on operating systems. It did so largely by eclipsing the desktop computer by facilitating the creation of a new mode of personal computing.

One could argue that TCP/IP and web standards like HTTP and HTML similarly made the desktop and its associated software (operating system, productivity suites, etc) less relevant, by increasing the ability of desktop users to access computing resources served by machines running different operating systems (e.g. a Linux server).

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Re:George Soros: Facebook and Google are a menace to society by croon on Friday January 26, 2018 @09:05AM (#16239177)
So what you're saying is that you can't break a monopoly through market forces, but merely wait out the monopoly market's relevance?
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Re:George Soros: Facebook and Google are a menace to society by CryptoPunk on Friday January 26, 2018 @02:52PM (#16242324)
You can make the monopoly less relevant or irrelevant by superseding its market. Maybe saying that's a case of "breaking the monopoly" is a stretch, but the point is it's a valid solution to the problems of a monopoly, which emanate from the market and financial power its controller wields.
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