Let's break up both of their monopolies!
Both of these companies played dirty to get on top, both hide money in tax havens. They both stiffle innovation.
this post was submitted on 07 Jan 2024
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They can be monopolies in their respective industries. They are not directly competing in hardware or services in their most profitable products.
Duopolies are also an issue
$100 billion is a narrow enough gap to make news? That is a direct threat to the public.
Define "valuable"? Like... For the shareholders or for society?
You don't find the ads in Windows 11 valuable?
As a Windows 10 user aiming to switch to Linux, I will miss out on that value. How will I ever survive? 😢
Windows 10 has the same ads as 11 so you're not missing out on anything.
I have no idea why people suddenly love Windows 10 now that there's something newer to hate on, despite them being the same bullshit just a slightly different skin.
Windows 10 works with little to no intervention needed from the user and there is a metric fuckton of available software. The only time I ever had to chase a driver down was for an audio to USB recording interface that the last driver written was for Win 7, and 10 runs it in legacy mode flawlessly. Did I mention the metric fuckton of available software. 10 has never given us anything to hate but how often it updates, but 11 tries like hell to bully it's way onto computers it wasn't invited to. And if you do get stuck with it, none of the shit is where you expect it to be. The UI is ugly and clumsy. And you can't revert. And what box did you check that Win 10 is advertising at you?
"Parasitically creating a strangle-hold on our entire society and much of its economy, heavily stifling choice and daily making people struggle, even those who don't purchase any of their products, all for their own greed."
Oh wait no, I read from the wrong page, but you are right, it's: "create wealth for their shareholders", yeah that's the ticket. :-D
Bonus points for getting many middle-class people to be complicit, by adding a layer of indirection so that they don't even know where their stock is located, only that it performs AT ANY COST (or else is sold & others that DO are purchased in their stead). That way the younger generations do not have to care for the elderly, b/c the stock market is doing that for them. Yay capitalism!:-)
That's the market capitalization so the definition is pretty clear
Whoever wins, we are fucked
Great, I hate it
No value to me, perhaps a determent.