Re:Instagram is shifting to videos – users aren't happy
by joe_the_user on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @04:04PM
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This may be true about what Google employees have become ...
But the changes at Facebook and Google have a clear cost-benefit equation. When a company is in an expanding market, improving it's offering to capture more of the market is very worthwhile. When a company is in a static market where they aren't likely to lose too much market share, the company has incentive to squeeze as much profits out of their market share. Usually that's by raising prices but in this instance it's by stuffing in as much ads and behavior-control shenanigans as possible.
You can say this is because of monopoly but similar dynamics happen with "oligopolies" - cellphone providers or pre-foreign competition US automakers.
But the changes at Facebook and Google have a clear cost-benefit equation. When a company is in an expanding market, improving it's offering to capture more of the market is very worthwhile. When a company is in a static market where they aren't likely to lose too much market share, the company has incentive to squeeze as much profits out of their market share. Usually that's by raising prices but in this instance it's by stuffing in as much ads and behavior-control shenanigans as possible.
You can say this is because of monopoly but similar dynamics happen with "oligopolies" - cellphone providers or pre-foreign competition US automakers.