Presidential Candidate Elizabeth Warren's Plan to 'Break Up' Big Tech Companies Could Affect Apple's App Store

[lederermc]

Apple has such a small market share that it's probably immune to horizontal monopoly action. As long as they allow access to the App Stores to competitors they can't be sued for having a vertical monopoly.
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"Pocahontas" needs to find another career or retire. She's damaged goods.

That's a racist comment.

 

[chrisdazzo]

Oof, stay outta my business, government.

 

[DNichter]

This is a problem, but there are bigger issues in the US that she should be more focused on.

 

[T Coma]

Oy vey. This is "Green New Deal"-level thoughtfulness.

 

[DotCom2]

Both major parties (D&R's) have gone WACKO. What we need is a REASONABLE third party.

 

[AppleMad98004]

How is Amazon buying Whole Foods anti competitive? What if Amazon bought Tesla? Cleary no negative impact on competition in fact it could me MORE competition for groceries and auto companies. She is nuts

2020... Next at 11... Amazon announces if Warren is elected all prices are going up big time.

 

[truthertech]

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.

Don't know about winning, but at least octogenarians will be finally well represented. And, it could be a huge rallying cry to point out both would be plowing the ground for nonagenarians (ninety year olds) as they neared that in their second term.

 

[calzon65]

There are a lot of things I hate about Warren. I think it was disgusting how she claimed native American status … BUT … I think she is 100% correct about the rise in power/influence of certain social media and content controlling tech companies.

These companies are wielding so much influence when it comes to American and world opinion that they should be treated more like public utilities.

 

[lowendlinux]

I agree with the senator, which is why I'd prefer her to stay in the senate

 

[RickInHouston]

The Ds need to get their crap together because stuff like this is going to get us another four years of President Trump.

Omar, Tlaib and AOC have already sealed the deal.

 

[archer75]

Indeed.

Big businesses -- if you don't like them, you can choose not to support them.

Not really. The bigger the business is the harder it is to avoid them. Google is everywhere. Good luck cutting them out of your life if you so choose. Same with amazon, nearly everything runs on their web services. Big business owns the government.
And the bigger it gets the more choice it takes away from you. And they simply squeeze out smaller competitors rather than actually competing with them. I think it was gizmodo that had a series of articles about how impossible it is to cut the various big tech companies out of your life. Good reads.

 

[Ebok]

Apple has such a small market share that it's probably immune to horizontal monopoly action. As long as they allow access to the App Stores to competitors they can't be sued for having a vertical monopoly.
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That's a racist comment.

oh stop it.

you can literally turn every comment into racism, doesn't mean that it is. log off the internet and enjoy life for crying out loud.

 

[Mansu944]

I was hoping we could go just a little longer before the next election cycle really began. Sigh . . . .

Nope...the election "cycle" is continuous now. Someone somewhere is working on 2036.

 

[gaximus]

We need someone not so extreme on the left side, so that Trump doesn't get re-elected

 

[dontwalkhand]

And just like that all of the tech companies are now backing conservative candidates.

 

[palmerc2]

This first step is what would directly affect Apple, as the App Store would become a Platform Utility, and any of Apple's first-party apps on it would not be allowed. So, the company would have to choose between running the App Store or building and selling its own apps

Not sure I understand this one.

I do agree tech companies are overwhelmingly powerful. Since FAANG (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google) comprise of a disproportionately large share of the S&P 500 which have single handedly been propping up the market. If only a couple of them falter (*cough* Netflix and Facebook *cough*), it could be devestating in financial markets (which is already starting IMO). However, this is not the way to solve it.

 

[AZREOSpecialist]

Don't know about winning, but at least octogenarians will be finally well represented. And, it could be a huge rallying cry to point out both would be plowing the ground for nonagenarians (ninety year olds) as they neared that in their second term.

Ageism has no place here.

 

[Saipher]

Well, now we already know who’s not being picked by the Democratic Party for 2020 presidential election race.

EDIT: Words

 

[truthertech]

Ageism has no place here.

Agreed. That's why I am pointing out how you are right it will be a winning ticket to have the first candidate team that can claim they have 160 years of experience, and if the country is wise enough to repeal term limits, they will be the first nonagenarians, and perhaps even, centenarians to serve in office!

 

[linuxcooldude]

Merging similar competitors to gain more market share may not be good or considered monopolistic. But merging/buying companies to diversify into other markets or to build products/services in-house is probably fine.

 

[dontwalkhand]

Dang! How can the people break up big government?

With a little thing called States Rights. Which there should be more of.

 

[cmwade77]

While the basic premise sounds nice in theory at first glance to many, if you dig deep, you realize how dangerous this would actually be. We don't need more government control over things, we really need less. A lot of what is stopping small businesses from competing is the fact that the government has imposed so many regulations on many of them that it is impossible for them to afford doing anything.

 

[BernyMac]

Break up. What does that mean exactly?

They want to see other people.

 

[Quu]

Here’s what will change: Small businesses would have a fair shot to sell their products on Amazon without the fear of Amazon pushing them out of business.

I guess no one told her that Amazon carries products from third party sellers and has done so for years? - There are thousands of small businesses thriving by selling goods on Amazon, many of them don't even make the products they sell on Amazon but use it as an extension of their physical locations or to maximise their warehouse space.

She's running for president you would think she would have a team around her that would tell her these kinds of ideas to break up all these companies isn't a good thing to put out there. People don't like government meddling in business, this is the sort of thing you do once you're already in and they can't remove you for a few years. Politics 101

 

[SkippyThorson]

Big business, frankly, needs to be left alone. Anyone remember when AT&T was broken up in to 'baby bells' and then reassembled anyway even bigger than before? They have four ways to get wireless and content services under their giant belt alone.

The plan to split off smaller brands, services or products from their parent company is insanity. Nest and Ring would have been dead if it weren't for Google and Amazon, respectively. Apple's own App store model is a winning one as it is; Apple wins big, and there are still gains for developers - small, admittedly, but gains nonetheless.

Someone needs to tell that political generation that the world isn't meant to be run like it's still the 1960's. These politicians are all so out of touch it's unreal. Rich, old politicians are what's ruining the country. Maybe we should look at breaking off the branches of corrupt Government as was its original intent. Everyone is currently in the proverbial bed with everyone else.

None of them have a clue how a tech company should be run. I'm not saying I do; but I'm also not proposing any radical change. They can barely stay in charge of their own campaigns.