Re:Facebook's e-mail debacle: One 'bug' fix, but rollback im...
by melvinmt on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @12:21AM
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Let's say 1% of all their users is fed up because of this and 0.1% actually closes their account. This leaves Zuckerberg with 98.9% control over e-mail traffic from 900+ million users. Well played, Zuck, well played.
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Re:Facebook's e-mail debacle: One 'bug' fix, but rollback im...
by entropy_ on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @03:42AM
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Couldn't this be construed as an abuse of a monopoly(antitrust)? They have a monopoly on social networking(there are alternatives, but they are very very small in comparison) and they are leveraging that to expand massively in another sphere, namely as email providers.