Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi...
by AnthonyMouse on Monday February 05, 2024 @05:37AM
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> McDonald's vs Burger King
Yum! Brands (KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, etc.) is slightly larger than Restaurant Brands International (Burger King). McDonald's is larger than both of them put together. Or if you want brands rather than corporations, there are a zillion burger chains.
> CVS vs Walgreens
Rite Aid and Walmart, among others.
> AT&T vs Verizon
The US wireless carrier with the largest market cap is T-Mobile, with only slightly fewer users than Verizon. There are also many smaller ones.
> Democrats vs Republicans
This isn't a result of consumer preferences, it's a result of the first past the post voting system creating a powerful incentive for the most similar parties to merge until there are only two left. (Score voting fixes this.)
> Apple vs Google
This is the only real market duopoly here, and it's the one they have to worry about.
Either they can license their content to multiple services so it's convenient for customers to subscribe to one service and get everything, or those two companies will eventually figure out a way to get the same effect and most likely end up sucking in 30% of their industry's revenue in the process.
Yum! Brands (KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, etc.) is slightly larger than Restaurant Brands International (Burger King). McDonald's is larger than both of them put together. Or if you want brands rather than corporations, there are a zillion burger chains.
> CVS vs Walgreens
Rite Aid and Walmart, among others.
> AT&T vs Verizon
The US wireless carrier with the largest market cap is T-Mobile, with only slightly fewer users than Verizon. There are also many smaller ones.
> Democrats vs Republicans
This isn't a result of consumer preferences, it's a result of the first past the post voting system creating a powerful incentive for the most similar parties to merge until there are only two left. (Score voting fixes this.)
> Apple vs Google
This is the only real market duopoly here, and it's the one they have to worry about.
Either they can license their content to multiple services so it's convenient for customers to subscribe to one service and get everything, or those two companies will eventually figure out a way to get the same effect and most likely end up sucking in 30% of their industry's revenue in the process.