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5 companies run the
internet: Google, apple, amazon, Microsoft and facebook. Each is
focused on a (significantly either wide or narrow -- with Google at
8
and facebook at one) range of markets
over
three main areas: hardware (cloud, tablets and phones), software
(search, social and maps),
and content (text-publishing,
music and audio-video). The battle ground that these companies
are
using to test their mettle is mostly in the heads of people with
disabilities (in the broad sense -- ie. The disability to put up with
the
frustration of going to the apple store to purchase a mac vga
adaptor
to do a presentation you have stored on an apple device, or the
disability to pay for a 5000 dollar Braille display, or the disability
to
stop fighting a religious war because all of your intelligence is
hidden
behind the fact that there is no Siri to do speech recognized
Google
searches in your language). So why couldn't some company just
copy
the basic functions of all of these markets, make them simple and
accessible, monopolize the whole thing as one platform with no
advertisements and argue in federal court that they are providing
a
platform for the competition of real content providers - not just
the
people who can get their shIt together enough to make sure they
have
all of their adaptors in a row?
Trusts and monopolies
http://en.wikipedia...ki/Trust_(monopoly)
for [pocmloc] [Vernon, Nov 12 2012]
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Why is it called "antitrust"? I never hear anyone referring to a monopoly or an exploitative coercive market hogging position as a "trust". |
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// The disability to put up with the frustration of going to the apple store to purchase a mac vga adaptor to do a presentation you have stored on an apple device // |
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Self-inflicted suffering => masochism => paraphillia => perversion. |
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// or the disability to stop fighting a religious war because all of your intelligence is hidden behind the fact that there is no Siri to do speech recognized Google searches in your language // |
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If you had any intelligence, you'd learn English. |
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// I never hear anyone referring to a monopoly or
an exploitative coercive market hogging position
as a "trust".// |
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One of the legal meanings of "trust" (as a noun) is
"a
group of entities collaborating to
monopolize the market". |
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This is, in turn, a specific aspect of the more
general term "trust", meaning a group of people
(as in "The Brains Trust" or "The National Trust"). |
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Note that neither of these has anything to do with
the term "trust" as used in Southern Ireland,
meaning "force that makes sometin' go". |
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Hence the phrase "Trust Potheen", potheen being a hypergolic fuel ... |
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"Alex, I'll take Paragraph Breaks for $500". |
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Well I can see that being against the National Trust is a worthwhile political endevour. |
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And I was hoping for a board game. |
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