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Re:How the Guardian improbably put itself on the path to pro... by Mortiffer on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @03:04AM (#16263669)
Because they are competitors?

But hey there is https://blendle.com I think it works pretty well

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Re:How the Guardian improbably put itself on the path to pro... by us0r on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @03:09AM (#16263693)
Banks are a great example of this:

"Mastercard, originally known as Interbank/Master Charge, was created by several California banks as a competitor to the BankAmericard issued by Bank of America, which later became the Visa credit card issued by Visa Inc."

SWIFT:

"SWIFT was founded in Brussels in 1973 under the leadership of its inaugural CEO Carl Reuterskiöld (1973–1983) and was supported by 239 banks in fifteen countries"

Several others I can't think of right now.

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Re:How the Guardian improbably put itself on the path to pro... by BerislavLopac on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @05:00AM (#16264121)
It's not the right comparison. Yes, banks compete with each other, but when someone changes their bank they don't change it that soon/often (unlike newspaper subscriptions, which rarely last for longer than a year). Additionally, banks have to interact (at least when transferring funds), unlike newspapers which have no incentive to exchange anything.
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Re:How the Guardian improbably put itself on the path to pro... by lars_francke on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @03:17AM (#16263718)
It works for things like Spotify as well. Competitors offering their products on a common platform. Revenue can be distributed by how often content from a certain provider is consumed.

Car2Go will probably soon be owned by Daimler and BMW as well.

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Re:How the Guardian improbably put itself on the path to pro... by oneeyedpigeon on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @03:44AM (#16263820)
> Revenue can be distributed by how often content from a certain provider is consumed.

This is the readability/brave model. I don't know why it hasn't taken off yet, but I really want it to.

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Re:How the Guardian improbably put itself on the path to pro... by icc97 on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @07:50AM (#16264806)
Car2Go is already owned by Daimler[0] why would they share that with BMW?

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car2Go

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Re:How the Guardian improbably put itself on the path to pro... by lars_francke on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @04:42PM (#16269321)
BMW owns the carsharing service DriveNow together with Sixt. Sixt just agreed (today? yesterday?) to sell their stake to BMW so that Car2Go and DriveNow can merge.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bmw-daimler-carsharing/bm...

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