Have the Tech Giants Grown Too Powerful?

Re:Have the Tech Giants Grown Too Powerful? by mattlondon on Thursday July 12, 2018 @07:28AM (#17513542)

Perhaps it only seems that way for household names like apple, Facebook and google.

There are a lot of less well known technology giants elsewhere in the world. E.g. ARM from the UK (now owned by Japanese giant SoftBank) has pretty much total domination on the smartphone CPU market (licensing anyway - lots of manufacturing is done by e.g. Samsung of Korea)

My mum will have heard of Facebook and Google, but I guarantee that she and probably most other people's mother's have never ever heard of ARM.

Just one example - countless others.

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Re:Have the Tech Giants Grown Too Powerful? by wilsonnb2 on Thursday July 12, 2018 @09:42AM (#17514424)

What's another example? This one strikes me as unique because ARM just sells their IP.

Sure, our mothers probably haven't heard of ARM but that's more like saying they haven't heard of x86. Our mothers have almost definitely heard of Samsung and Apple, both of whom manufacture a large number of ARM chips.

There's even a decent chance they've heard of a company like Qualcomm that's not as well known as Apple or Samsung.

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Re:Have the Tech Giants Grown Too Powerful? by andy_boot on Thursday July 12, 2018 @11:53AM (#17515782)

Foxconn, SAP ? These are good examples aren't they.

Edit: Not nvidia. Realised OP was asking for None-US companies

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Re:Have the Tech Giants Grown Too Powerful? by michaelt on Thursday July 12, 2018 @08:59AM (#17513934)

Different parts of the industry have very different potential for political power.

If you wanted to influence a US presidential election, a 100% monopoly on the printing press would be much more useful than a 100% monopoly on zipper manufacturing.

The former is presumably what newspaper opinion writers are worried about.

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