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Re:Competition, not break-up, is the cure for tech giants’ d... by m-p-3 on Thursday March 14, 2019 @04:30PM (#19393340)
I was reading some comments on Slashdot regarding the Spotify vs Apple story, and some where saying "Spotify just wants to sell music subscriptions while asking to be hosted for free on Apple's app store. If they don't like paying 30% they can just make their own device and app store".

Yeah, as if you can build an ecosystem as big as Apple from scratch just on the premise of selling music and nothing else. Some people are just out of touch with reality. Microsoft, with far more resources, tried with Windows Phone and it failed.

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Re:Competition, not break-up, is the cure for tech giants’ d... by chillacy on Sunday March 17, 2019 @02:15PM (#19415392)
What if: because building these things is hard, therefore it should be rewarding.

Instead the hard stuff gets commoditized over time.

Photolithography and operating systems are hard, but now social networking is where the money is at.

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