FTC requests Facebook to sell WhatsApp and Instagram (opens in new tab)

(independent.co.uk)

73 pointspouwerkerk4y ago15 comments

15 comments

That's a right thing to do. It should follow Apple to be required to sell App Store, iOS and macOS. Google should be required to sell Ad Sense, YouTube and gmail and so on. This concentration of power is bad for everyone except shareholders.

mandeepj4y ago

> Apple to be required to sell App Store, iOS and macOS

Not going to happen. Do you want them to build only hardware?

summm4y ago

Yes. Why not? They should make hardware and publish the specs. Of course. That is very unlikely due to the power they already have.

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FractalHQ4y ago

Yea, I agree with the Google bit but this part made me think GP is being sarcastic…. Those 3 elements are part of the same Ecosystem and in a way, the same product.

Amazon and Microsoft own WAY more tangentially related companies than Apple, and are constantly gobbling up more and more.

ChrisArchitect4y ago

[dupe]

discussion brewing over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28235555

thedudeabides54y ago

But then how will we build metaverse?

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