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

[BarrettF77]

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.

LOL!!! I needed a good laugh. The cowboy and the socialist. Sounds like a winner!!!

 

[archer75]

This is so easy to prove wrong. What would happen if a lot people stopped using Facebook? Answer Facebook would be irrelevant. How do you stop using the government. The answer is you can't. Well if you do they throw you in jail.

Not using facebook doesn't avoid facebook. They are collecting data on you even if you don't have a facebook account. Quitting facebook does not stop facebook from doing what they are already doing. Their hands are in too much as well. More than you realize. And facebook is only one example. The others are worse.

 

[BarrettF77]

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.

This is what she is called in her home area. I guess everyone there is racist too.

 

[bigandtasty]

As a Democrat I find this embarrassing.


As a Dem, you should find most things embarrassing as of late... You all are eating your own... Popcorn, anyone?

 

[AustinIllini]

Done with her

 

[pweicks]

Ah yes, the Democrats’ way to solving problems: more regulation. And more regulation. And more. And more. And more.

No thanks. I don’t need the government wiping my butt for me. Sad to see there are so many in this country who do.

 

[KGBguy]

Another idiot for a president... The mentality here is astounding!

 

[bladerunner2000]

She fails to understand that some of these mergers helped save good products from the scrap bin due to the creators lack of funds to push them forward.

Such as?

 

[koa]

Any guess on who Tim 's new BFF is?

 

[Onexy]

Those are gonna be healthy changes.

 

[Agit21]

Pocahontas is going crazy.

 

[threesixty360]

It’s amazing how little people in government understand technology. The reason most of these businesses survive is that they are tightly linked together technology wise.

I imagine Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all run off the same server side technology. How do you separate that?

Government just see the name and think tech is still like old style business. It’s not. The technology is and economies of scale is what makes these businesses viable.

And that’s one of the reasons they have very little competition. Who can spin up a service like AWS but Microsoft and google? Even Apple can’t, they have been using azure and AWS I believe for iCloud.

Its just cloud cuckoo land out here.

 

[BarrettF77]

Any guess on who Tim 's new BFF is?

I'm going to go out on a ledge, but as most companies are typically liberally minded, I'd be willing to bet this stance beings to swing as the Govt nominees for the D want additional involvement.

My challenge is show me one gov't agency that operates in the black and not the Red (Aside from the IRS). We have so much debt, let's just add more people to our gov't work force. SMH

 

[thebeans]

And, just like that, Warren's campaign is over.

Yep. Crap like this from democratic candidates is what’s going to put Cheeto man in for a second term.

 

[ThunderSkunk]

lol its an anti-establishment revolution! Except big business, got to protect that. In fact I think the state needs some new laws and public funding to ensure no small businesses pose a threat to our biggest oldest businesses. But yeah, anti-uh-established... other peoples stuff.

 

[BarrettF77]

Cheeto man should get a second term. Him as a person aside, give me examples of one bad thing he has done that anyone doesn't like?

 

[MattMJB0188]

Somebody get this clown out of there. This babbling idiot makes no sense whatsoever. Besides, America isn't ready for a female president!

 

[nsayer]

Mark my words: The Democrats' lurch to the left is how Trump gets re-elected.

 

[barkomatic]

We do need to come down hard on Facebook. Zuck has been publicly contrite but plays a shell game with people’s privacy. Not sure about her platform utility idea though I’d like to learn more about it.

 

[ThunderSkunk]

My challenge is show me one gov't agency that operates in the black and not the Red (Aside from the IRS). We have so much debt, let's just add more people to our gov't work force. SMH

Thats easy. NASA. Every dollar spent by NASA back when it was actually being funded turned around a whopping 14:1 ROI in the american economy, and the outpouring of innovation in every area of science from materials and processes engineering, mathematics & physics, computer software and hardware, and ever branch of medical and physical sciences is what we’ve all been capitalizing on and building on since. Typically, the failure of americas people and its heehaw leadership to comprehend this led to defunding that effort carastrophically, with predictable results. If youre looking for the legislative, or god forbid executive offices to quit serving their original purpose and function as for-profit departments, Ill invite you to consider the entirely self-serving wide open market for corruption we’ve seen explode since “citizens united” legitimized selling government power to the highest bidder. This isnt hypothetical, there are plenty of even worse countries in the world to visit to see how that goes, I dont see why so many people have to turn this into one of them just to see what its like.

 

[DogHouseDub]

As one of the preeminent scholars on business and finance, she has no chance. Nobody wants to hear the cold hard realities, they want to kick the can down the road a little further until it isn't their problem.

 

[GuruZac]

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.

For who?

 

[MacManiac1]

And, just like that, Warren's campaign is over.

True

 

[CmdrLaForge]

I am truly a democrat but this plan is nonsense

 

[v0lume4]

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.

Touche. Honest.

How do we find that middle ground so that we can keep a check on big business while also NOT surrendering power to the government? Many government policies, in some way or another, are simply a transfer of power from the private sector to the government, under the guise of some good-sounding cause.

I mean I suppose the only one that can "check" these businesses is the government(s) under which these businesses operate. But good luck finding some politicians willing to sign a bill that is -- in every sense of the word -- completely and 100% for the good of the people with absolutely no ulterior motive.

It's a catch-22 every where you turn.