Apple and Google have an oligarchy in mobile and Google has a monopoly in search.
The amount of self-dealing is overwhelming. Google consistently prefers their own experiences to those of other companies.
Apple does as well, in addition they lock out apps from the platform.
This is 100% an anti-competitive situation the fact there is no competition in a situation that should not otherwise have natural monopolies is the primary evidence of this.
I suggest that Google needs to be broken up and that it cannot defer search results to it's other lines of businesses.
Apple must not be able to compete with services offered in the App Store, or, the App Store needs to be a separate business.
Alternative app stores must be allowed on mobile platforms.
While I'm on the anti-trust bandwagon - the money that AWS pours into Amazon retail, and their subsequent tax advantages are a form of economic dumping. Amazon is washing through retail with 'tech money' putting a lot of competition out of business, after which they will raise prices. A strong argument could be made for breaking up AWS from Amazon Retail.
Finally, throw in some basic privacy rules and 'right to repair' etc. and then you have some semblance of basic governance.
That there is no discussion about this whatsoever tells you who has power.
Traditional media (even ostensibly Left Wing) outlets won't spend much time talking about it ... because money.
If a 'Great Leader' emerged and did those things, I think we would look back upon it as a 'total no brainer' in hindsight. Much like whenever we provide Ukraine some new gear after months of fretting about 'upsetting Putin', we never regret it at all, ergo the question begs asking: why not sooner?
This discussion needs to be had on a national scale, and though I'm generally not a huge fan of the EU, this is one area they could actually be useful.
Apple and Google have an oligarchy in mobile and Google has a monopoly in search.
The amount of self-dealing is overwhelming. Google consistently prefers their own experiences to those of other companies.
Apple does as well, in addition they lock out apps from the platform.
This is 100% an anti-competitive situation the fact there is no competition in a situation that should not otherwise have natural monopolies is the primary evidence of this.
I suggest that Google needs to be broken up and that it cannot defer search results to it's other lines of businesses.
Apple must not be able to compete with services offered in the App Store, or, the App Store needs to be a separate business.
Alternative app stores must be allowed on mobile platforms.
While I'm on the anti-trust bandwagon - the money that AWS pours into Amazon retail, and their subsequent tax advantages are a form of economic dumping. Amazon is washing through retail with 'tech money' putting a lot of competition out of business, after which they will raise prices. A strong argument could be made for breaking up AWS from Amazon Retail.
Finally, throw in some basic privacy rules and 'right to repair' etc. and then you have some semblance of basic governance.
That there is no discussion about this whatsoever tells you who has power.
Traditional media (even ostensibly Left Wing) outlets won't spend much time talking about it ... because money.
If a 'Great Leader' emerged and did those things, I think we would look back upon it as a 'total no brainer' in hindsight. Much like whenever we provide Ukraine some new gear after months of fretting about 'upsetting Putin', we never regret it at all, ergo the question begs asking: why not sooner?
This discussion needs to be had on a national scale, and though I'm generally not a huge fan of the EU, this is one area they could actually be useful.