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0 pointsrunevault3y ago0 comments

It is good Apple (and Google since last I heard they put similar functionality in place or would be soon) are doing this. That doesn't remove the concern that one or two companies deciding to do something can be so damaging to another megacorp who isn't competing in the same space really. Both can be true, speaking as someone who doesn't care for FB or Apple (or Google really either but to have a smartphone you basically have to pick one of the two).

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lotsofpulp3y ago

> That doesn't remove the concern that one or two companies deciding to do something can be so damaging to another megacorp who isn't competing in the same space really.

Why is this a problem? If a business does something that obviated another business, that is the obviated business’s problem.

Websites and computers displaced travel agents, streaming displaced cable/satellite tv middlemen, etc. If a business suffers because they are providing less utility to customers than another business, that is a sign of a functioning market.

nwienert3y ago

They should be damaging each other more if anything, I see 0 problem with that. Apple launching a search engine would be the best possible thing for the world any of these companies could do, given how terrible Google has become.

And Google is by far the worst of the bunch, closest to 1984 mixed with some of the worst of old Microsoft and a splattering of pure degradation of societal fabric though incessant advertising. They have no taste, no ideals, they have suffocated all competition in the most important industry we have (information gathering) systematically and then turned the entire thing into pay to play.

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