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Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am... by bhl on Friday March 08, 2019 @07:43PM (#19343686)
> You can replace Google/Amazon/Facebook in seconds.

This is largely false: look at market share of all their competitors — network effects are really hard to replace.

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Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am... by ApolloFortyNine on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @01:12PM (#19380917)
Google doesn't even have a network effect, they just have the World's best search engine. If it ceased to be the World's best, you could leave immediately. Amazon you can replace by just ordering from any of the other countless online vendors.

Facebook is harder to replace, but people thought Myspace would be around forever for the same reasons.

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Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am... by bryan_w on Saturday March 09, 2019 @02:06AM (#19344913)
People said the same thing about AOL, Yahoo, and Myspace
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