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RE: Is Amazon Too Big? Monopolies and the Price of Convenience.

in #technology7 years ago

Google has a successful mobile OS. It has never challenged Microsoft on desktop

But was that Google's intent? Or did they have the vision that the desktop was dying so instead of trying to compete in shrinking market, they targets an emerging market - mobile.

Now Google dominates in so many areas. but other players are now coming out to challenge them.

This is just like my back garden and the ongoing war of the weeds. Every now and then one weed will take over everything and you think nothing will ever compete with it. a few months later and the picture changes, and other weeds start making inroads and soon the dominant weed is struggling for survival.

it's quite fascinating to watch ;-)

I think dominance is not a bad thing when it brings benefit toe producers and customers alike, and the corporation skims a bit off the top.

That's fair enough because it helps everyone.

But when the corporation sees the producers and consumers as resources to be mined solely for corporate profit, then that's bad.

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But was that Google's intent? Or did they have the vision that the desktop was dying so instead of trying to compete in shrinking market, they targets an emerging market - mobile.

Good point and that is perhaps how monopolies die - they become obsolete.

But when the corporation sees the producers and consumers as resources to be mined solely for corporate profit, then that's bad.

Yes. I think the sad thing is that this attitude seems to emerge within organisations once they get to a certain size.