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Re:Could EU force hardware manufacturers to make working dri... by fooker on Sunday October 01, 2023 @05:30PM (#37731055)
What if by letting this anti-competitive monopolies survive, we are getting future better ‘everyday experiences’ killed in their cribs?

Large companies routinely buy out startups, kill their products, and absorbs the teams.

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Re:Could EU force hardware manufacturers to make working dri... by scarface_74 on Sunday October 01, 2023 @05:47PM (#37731204)
Well, we have three examples of well resourced companies that weren’t able to compete in the smart phone market - Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook.

You really think a little startup is going to be able to do hardware at scale?

Was it big bad Apple that killed all of those phones or maybe it is just consumers made a choice using their own free will?

You really think that the startups didn’t have “being bought by a big company” as an exit strategy in the first place?

Out of all the companies that YC has funded (1000+) only six have ever gone public.

Were all the little companies that Apple acquired to integrate into their phone in an alternate universe going to create a phone?

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