Re:Google and Facebook are monopolies. Does it matter? [audio]
by dllthomas on Friday November 16, 2018 @09:23AM
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Likely, although "everyone is dissatisfied, but not enough to leave" can also be a result of compromise. If there's value to be had by everyone using the same thing, while everyone wants that one thing to be a little different than what others want, a lot of people will "want alternatives" that they can't really have regardless of how the provider behaves.
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Re:Google and Facebook are monopolies. Does it matter? [audio]
by stcredzero on Friday November 16, 2018 @12:20PM
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Likely, although "everyone is dissatisfied, but not enough to leave" can also be a result of compromise.
That's a distortion. It's more like, lots of people are dissatisfied, but all of the alternatives are economic/network-effect suicide. It's more like people living and working in the crappy mining town, because the only alternatives are like living as a hobo in the woods.
Re:Google and Facebook are monopolies. Does it matter? [audio]
by dllthomas on Sunday November 18, 2018 @09:28PM
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I'm not sure if you're saying that what I'm saying is a distortion of the situation, or that the compromise represents monopolistic distortion of the market. I think the former? If so, that's a much stronger reading than I intended; I wasn't saying "this is what's happening" but rather "this is a thing that happens in general, it may be part of the explanation here, I don't know how to really pick it apart."