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echelon11/21/20241 replyview on HN

> Punishing Google (or Apple) because they make good products that people like is beyond stupid.

These companies are squeezing blood out of every company in existence, and there is no way out.

This racket hurts consumers, because there's no competition. Competition is impossible.

Apple and Google are an invasive species that have destroyed the ecosystem diversity, and now it's time for the government to step in and restore balance.

> big, successful companies

Disney is a big, successful company. Apple and Google are Blunderbores [1]. They control nearly all of computing. I can't think of a way you aren't paying them. They have their grubby hands on every part of the funnel, taxing it piece by piece.

They force you to pay for search, they force you to pay to deploy software, they tax your business transactions, they steal information about your business transactions, they keep you from forming a customer relationship yourself. They control what technology you use, they force you to make unscheduled updates, they prevent you from updating on your own or making your own choices.

They're Blunderbores, and the world is their kingdom until we cut them down a notch.

[1] If we don't have a better term than monopoly, let's use this; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blunderbore


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dismalaf11/21/2024

> They control nearly all of computing.

Ummm, what? What about Microsoft that has a stranglehold on corporate computing? IBM, SAP, TSMC, ASML all dominate certain aspects of computing. Nvidia? Meta has a near monopoly on social networks (Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram).

I personally do think Apple behaves very anti-competitively but none of these are actual monopolies IMO (ASML might be the closest but only because no one else has figured out how to do what they do).