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Big Tech to face its Ma Bell moment? US House Dems demand break-up of 'monopolists' Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google

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Re: Poking a Grizzly in the Forest in the Bread Basket with the Blunt Instrument of a Cleft Stick ..

Today, how many people boot Microsoft Windows, then open Google Chrome and spend most of their time there. using something from the Google or Facebook estate? If it's something else, there's a good chance it's run from an AWS server. Of course if they are using a mobe it will be or Apple or Google, same for a tablet - Surfaces are a minority.

Moreover Microsoft has now far more competition from open source software that it had in 1996 when it went under antitrust scrutiny. Isn't open source a success? If so, there is competition The antitrust inquiry of the time had the effect to keep Microsoft in check.

Microsoft has still a dominant position on fhe desktop software, true. But there isn't (yet?) a walled store which is the only way to install software - the platform is far more open than iOS or Android. I'm writing this in Firefox, after all. Probably the worst platform is the XBox.

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