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philipallstar • today at 12:57 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Nothing has been captured, any more than a company inventing anything has "captured" it.

And there are other companies: Apple, Samsung, Huawei, Tencent MyApp, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, Honor, K Telecom T-Store, Jio, MTN Play.

Not even close to a captured utility. And if it were, which state on the planet should own it?


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Matl • today at 1:03 PM

> there are other companies: Apple, Samsung, Huawei, Tencent MyApp, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, Honor,

Tell me about the different OSes each of Samsung, Huawei, Tencent MyApp, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, Honor etc. run then that we can choose from.

It's like saying Windows doesn't have a monopoly in the PC space because HP, Dell, Lenovo, ASUS.

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Loquebantur • today at 1:08 PM

You're deluding yourself.

Pretending, some other company could come stroll along and take over Google's turf, completely ignores the underlying reality.

People don't talk on two phones at once, they only use one search engine regularly and they even only use one browser to surf the internet.

That bottleneck leads to market capture due to inevitable logical reasons, not because I say so.

If you want autonomous states, each one has to control their own infrastructure. Just don't forget to question your assumptions.

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