> It’s only a problem if a single provider is a monopoly and uses that to squeeze out other companies in order to raise prices.
The giants behave different to monopolies in the past.
Amazon makes its catalogs available for free, which makes businesses like Netflix and their offerings look expensive. They subsidize the costs using revenues from different business units, which is not only unfair, it's not actually competition.
It's not even necessarily about money. Giants care about attracting and keeping people on their platform.
Once actual healthy businesses dry up, revenues paid to creatives will go down. They've already begun picking apart other studios and assimilating their businesses, and this will only accelerate.
> Increased competition is a good thing.
Not when music, movies, and art become just features of the tech giant platforms. It dumbs everything down and ensures the tech giant opinions are the ones that get amplified.
The giants behave different to monopolies in the past.
Amazon makes its catalogs available for free, which makes businesses like Netflix and their offerings look expensive. They subsidize the costs using revenues from different business units, which is not only unfair, it's not actually competition.
It's not even necessarily about money. Giants care about attracting and keeping people on their platform.
Once actual healthy businesses dry up, revenues paid to creatives will go down. They've already begun picking apart other studios and assimilating their businesses, and this will only accelerate.
> Increased competition is a good thing.
Not when music, movies, and art become just features of the tech giant platforms. It dumbs everything down and ensures the tech giant opinions are the ones that get amplified.