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Re:Tim Berners-Lee says tech giants may have to be split up by mattmaroon on Thursday November 01, 2018 @02:01PM (#18356656)
Neither do the people above. Apple isn't acquiring any other phone makers. Google isn't acquiring any other search engines.

The breakups you suggested would make them slightly smaller companies but wouldn't solve any of the problems. the problem with Google if there is one is that it's the only search engine anybody uses. It's 90% of the market. Taking away YouTube doesn't change that.

Instagram isn't really a competitor with Facebook. Facebook would still be an effective Monopoly. Same with apple without iTunes.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee says tech giants may have to be split up by JumpCrisscross on Thursday November 01, 2018 @02:09PM (#18356741)
> Instagram isn't really a competitor with Facebook

Of course it is. Facebook is losing certain demographics to Instagram. If they were separate companies, Facebook would be under far greater shareholder pressure.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee says tech giants may have to be split up by mattmaroon on Thursday November 01, 2018 @03:27PM (#18357530)
I don't think that's true. I think Facebook is losing customers due to its own downsides, and Instagram is gaining customers on its own Merit. I don't think that there is a zero-sum competition between the two
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Re:Tim Berners-Lee says tech giants may have to be split up by craftyguy on Thursday November 01, 2018 @08:28PM (#18359772)
> I think Facebook is losing customers due to its own downsides, and Instagram is gaining customers on its own Merit

You literally just proved the point of GP.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee says tech giants may have to be split up by ummonk on Friday November 02, 2018 @06:33PM (#18367276)
Instagram is definitely a competitor with Facebook; indeed its founders recently quit because some of their desired projects (such as long form video) were being quashed to limit competition with the main Facebook platform.
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