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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by HWR_14 on Monday June 20, 2022 @12:20PM (#31812145)
There were several similarly large companies that Facebook killed by modifying their algorithm. Let's not pretend that the scale of "hundreds of millions" sized companies can stand up to pressure from Apple/Google/Meta/Microsoft/Amazon.

And what's the new acronym to refer to those companies?

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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by ayewo on Monday June 20, 2022 @12:40PM (#31812439)
It's MAMAA now = Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Amazon, Alphabet
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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by mojuba on Monday June 20, 2022 @12:23PM (#31812193)
GAMMA - though it'd be too cool for these guys.
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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by colejohnson66 on Monday June 20, 2022 @12:47PM (#31812529)
If we're renaming Facebook to Meta in these acronyms, why is Google->Alphabet always ignored?
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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by mojuba on Monday June 20, 2022 @01:06PM (#31812751)
Because Meta = Facebook + Instagram + WhatsApp, all quite significant customer-facing products.

What is Alphabet then? It's Google, which is a long list of well known customer-facing products, plus a bunch of obscure or experimental companies the public largely doesn't care about.

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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by jefftk on Monday June 20, 2022 @01:10PM (#31812800)
Too many vowels
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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by kmeisthax on Monday June 20, 2022 @12:34PM (#31812366)
MAGMA also works
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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by anonymousiam on Monday June 20, 2022 @12:53PM (#31812594)
Or delete Facebook (Meta) and now you have MAGA!
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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by tsol on Monday June 20, 2022 @03:06PM (#31814298)
G'MAMA
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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by int_19h on Monday June 20, 2022 @02:44PM (#31814000)
Maybe instead of inventing a new acronym every few years, we should just call it the "tech oligopolists"?
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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by ec109685 on Monday June 20, 2022 @01:26PM (#31812998)
Plus when they shutdown their app platform.
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