The big players absorbing the competition does hinder innovation, so there are some good points in there about reversing tech mergers.
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Presidential Candidate Elizabeth Warren's Plan to 'Break Up' Big Tech Companies Could Affect Apple's App Store
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As a Democrat I find this embarrassing.
Ok... how? This is the same as the kid that says “if you make me class president I’ll get vending machines!” Great, but will you? How? What’s the plan to do that?
Ok... how? This is the same as the kid that says “if you make me class president I’ll get vending machines!” Great, but will you? How? What’s the plan to do that?
Dear Elizabeth Warren,
This ain’t it chief
This ain’t it chief
You underestimate the blood lust that the general public has right now. This will be a positive thing for her - but not for everyone. With that said, I still don't think she'll win, but this type of aggressive behavior is what it would take.
I also think that soon after people realize the huge nutter vibe she gives off, that she'll soon be rejected by most males (similar to Hilary), and any gain she receives from general policy choice she will ultimately lose.
This would just get wound up courts for decades. Amazon and Apple could easily argue they’ve done more for small businesses in recent years than any other major corporation or probably International government. How many small businesses are successful because of Amazon’s marketplace or how many software developers, big and small, have been able to grow exponentially thanks to the App Store? Just another miss-guided politician, painting big businesses as the bad guys when in reality it’s years of bad decisions by Governments all over the World that are damaging our economies and standards of living.
what she is saying actually makes sense but wont happen.
The lady is such a misinformed ignoramus on 99% of the issues she represents, but this one I agree with on most fronts.
The democrats are constantly making Trumps re-election more and more easy. Also warren career was over before it began
The article provides the general outline of the idea.
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The tech companies already do that with each other now. That's not really a barrier.
Well, she’s done. She’s always been kooky anyways.
So, she wants to fix the problem by creating more problems?
Really sounds like she just wants some regulatory agency to tell Google/Facebook/Apple what to do and when to do it.
Her plan boils down to: "Do what the government tells you or we will break you up like AT&T."
Doesn't sound like a plan, just being bossy.
Really sounds like she just wants some regulatory agency to tell Google/Facebook/Apple what to do and when to do it.
Her plan boils down to: "Do what the government tells you or we will break you up like AT&T."
Doesn't sound like a plan, just being bossy.
Pocahontas wasn't the chief
Calm down all of your precious snowflakes... Warren was never a mainstream candidate. Wait for Joe Biden to throw his hat into the ring. A Biden-Sanders ticket is a winning ticket.
I agree with her relative to Google and Amazon. But not Microsoft and Apple.
But we already know that "Pocahontas" speak with forked tongue.
But we already know that "Pocahontas" speak with forked tongue.
Not as looney as her colleagues. Yikes. Look at AOC.
Although these days, you basically have to adapt to whatever your party is pushing, else they disown you and pull your funding. So in some capacity, her and most of the current Dem candidates are one in the same. Which is really too bad. I'd love to see some more moderate candidates. I felt that the Dems of yesteryear still loved their country.
Her facebook and twitter DMs will mysteriously leak. 
Truly, she is the Last of the Mohicans.
And also her last hope of a presidential bid.
And also her last hope of a presidential bid.
I'm not sure how unraveling the mergers would work -- many smaller companies built themselves strictly to be acquired, not for long-term sustainability. Would you pick and choose which acquisitions to unwind? What if the original CEO doesn't want to come back, who is going to select who runs this new/rebooted company?
What is the financial impact to Facebook shareholders if the government comes along and rips away Instagram? What happens to the acquired intellectual property that has been already cross-pollinated/implemented/etc. If you rip away Instagram for example, where does their IP wind up? Infinite cross-license with Facebook? Have Facebook rip out all of the pieces the Instagram staff built? If Facebook can keep the tech they've built from Instagram's IP, then does Instagram have any possibility to remain competitive if they have no unique features?
It's nice grandstanding, and I can see the potential to unwind things that haven't fully executed (or are similar to a traditional monopoly where company A and company B are in the exact same space, and one acquires the other -- such as the telcos), but there's no elegant way to unwind most of these app/pure tech acquisitions.
What is the financial impact to Facebook shareholders if the government comes along and rips away Instagram? What happens to the acquired intellectual property that has been already cross-pollinated/implemented/etc. If you rip away Instagram for example, where does their IP wind up? Infinite cross-license with Facebook? Have Facebook rip out all of the pieces the Instagram staff built? If Facebook can keep the tech they've built from Instagram's IP, then does Instagram have any possibility to remain competitive if they have no unique features?
It's nice grandstanding, and I can see the potential to unwind things that haven't fully executed (or are similar to a traditional monopoly where company A and company B are in the exact same space, and one acquires the other -- such as the telcos), but there's no elegant way to unwind most of these app/pure tech acquisitions.
Indeed.
Big businesses -- if you don't like them, you can choose not to support them.
Big government -- good look with "choice," buddy.
That's a really odd idea. If you split companies up by which markets they're active in, they won't actually start competing by having been split up. We'd just have stuff like "Apple Phones Co. Ltd." who would enter into a "strategic relationship with "Apple Software Division Co. Ltd." to only ship their software on their phones, and then "Apple Software Division Co. Ltd." would say to "Apple Digital Stores" that they had entered a strategic relationship to only allow the App Store on the phone. Now imagine this being done for all of Apple. We're back exactly where we started.
Splitting Google AdSense and DoubleClick and things like that might be a little bit more interesting, but now she's got all the tech giants against her, which is going to be very bad for her campaign.
I do agree that tech giants have too much power, but I think a more reasonable approach is to regulate what they're allowed to do. I think too many tech giants have grown to such tremendous size and power because a long series of cons involving planned obsolescence and vaguely written EULA's that have allowed them to do virtually whatever they wanted without the customer having any idea what they'd signed up for that.
That can be regulated specifically, and it should be. In fact, I'm pretty sure even Tim Cook agrees with that approach.
Splitting Google AdSense and DoubleClick and things like that might be a little bit more interesting, but now she's got all the tech giants against her, which is going to be very bad for her campaign.
I do agree that tech giants have too much power, but I think a more reasonable approach is to regulate what they're allowed to do. I think too many tech giants have grown to such tremendous size and power because a long series of cons involving planned obsolescence and vaguely written EULA's that have allowed them to do virtually whatever they wanted without the customer having any idea what they'd signed up for that.
That can be regulated specifically, and it should be. In fact, I'm pretty sure even Tim Cook agrees with that approach.
"Pocahontas" needs to find another career or retire. She's damaged goods.