Comment on Should We Be Afraid of Apple, Google and Facebook? by John Conor

The US DoJ uses a particular test to determine if a firm has monopoly power - the Herfindahl - Hirschmann index (HHI). Using this as the sole indicator, and thinking reasonably carefully about the markets in which each plays (search and web-delivered ads for the first, 'social network' connections for the second): Google and Facebook absolutely have monopoly power. The answers for the others are less clear. I have not read Prof. Wu's book (and can't get it except, ahem, to my Kindle, since I live in Asia), so cannot tell if he used the DoJ numerical definition, or how precisely he used term monopoly at all.

Comment on Should We Be Afraid of Apple, Google and Facebook? by John Conor

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Comment on Should We Be Afraid of Apple, Google and Facebook? by eideard

The paranoid rarely change - except, occasionally, the direction of their fears. A foolish waste of time and energy.

Comment on Should We Be Afraid of Apple, Google and Facebook? by eideard

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Comment on Should We Be Afraid of Apple, Google and Facebook? by PRETHOUGHT

Yeah, tell me about it. Now complete proud owner Novell! 420 million dollars worth to MS and then the rest to Attachmate another company owned by MS just to make it look like it's not an anti-trust case. Android and Linux users be prepared for the MS lawsuit assaults!!!!! In 2011 the battle royal against open source will begin!

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