monopolies

Anti-trust is about protecting the free market from natural monopolies, and Apple is by no means a monopoly.

For better or for worse, once services become monopolies the government has much more authority to regulate them.

Another reason to avoid monopolies -- so that they cannot set themselves up as the only game in town.

Why people can't take this obvious fact and apply it to state-mandated monopolies, like education, is perplexing.

The old Bell monopolies get a stranglehold on the last mile, and then wireless transmissions as well.

Of course the current system of government granted monopolies on spectrum allocation would have to go away.

Boycotts aren't very effective today because they're hard to organize, and some vendors have relative monopolies.

Well, they are also out to disrupt the government enforced taxi monopolies using VC money.

Having a web platform that can compete with native apps mitigates the problems and abuses common with companies that have monopolies.

In the real world, middle man competition is being replaced with middle man monopolies, e.g.

There used to be, in the form of TLC monopolies and regulations around medallions.

By taking control of government in the way that previous taxi monopolies did.

I'm not sympathetic whatsoever to "content creators" bellyaching stories about the good ole days when they had control of the monopolies.

I've been solidly in the "actual value is being created by a lot of companies, mainly because tech (via startups) is destroying existing monopolies", but that's less true of some.

Newspaper ad revenue has fallen from $65 billion in 2000 to $18 billion So Joe Schmoe could make a record and market it to the general public (read: get radio airplay) before the internet came and stole everything with their "monopolies"?

Monopolies are often good for fundamental innovation.