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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Abusing Monopoly in Ad Technology by lovich on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @02:26PM (#34508811)
You’re summarizing the problem with trusts in capitalism here in your argument. Capitalism works to generate innovation and wealth because there’s competitive forces driving that. No one can compete with gmail and YouTube because they are being subsidized by another business segment. If you get rid of that competition it leads to stagnation
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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Abusing Monopoly in Ad Technology by gggggg5 on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @03:52PM (#34510167)
> No one can compete with gmail

This is kind of very obviously not true.

>and YouTube

Lots of companies operating in the video delivery space too.

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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Abusing Monopoly in Ad Technology by lovich on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @12:24AM (#34514729)
> This is kind of very obviously not true.

Who is competing with gmail? Please include market share and revenue in your analysis

>>and YouTube Lots of companies operating in the video delivery space too.

This is more defensibile than the YouTube argument, there is Rumble and Vimeo for instance. But again, What is the market share and revenue for YouTube vs these other “competitors”?

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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Abusing Monopoly in Ad Technology by gggggg5 on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @04:52AM (#34516461)
>Who is competing with gmail? Please include market share and revenue in your analysis

Outlook, Yahoo, (insert a long list of Chinese providers here), Yandex, Fastmail, Zoho Mail, Hey, Protonmail and so forth.

All of the above have actually managed to capture a decent share of the market, and there are many more.

>This is more defensibile than the YouTube argument, there is Rumble and Vimeo for instance. But again, What is the market share and revenue for YouTube vs these other “competitors”?

Instagram and Facebook are also huge in the same space. I'd guess that Akamai is even bigger.

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