Apple seems to have the issue Microsoft had in the 90s - locking out competitors from their ecosystem. But then they are also using their market position and app store to act as an additional gate on the app development side. The latter issue might not be visible on the consumer side, but it's still monopolistic behavior given their share of the market and the closed ecosystem of i-products.
Amazon is also quite anticompetitive. It may not always appear bad for consumers, but our definition of monopoly isn't just "bad for consumers". Price manipulations to force an acquisition of diapers.com seems pretty heavy handed and monopoly behavior. The way they also sell on their own platform also seems pretty anticompetitive - what data are they really using when entering a market with their own branded products?
Yes part one is hardware vs software vs advertising
Paragraph two is about overall shitty business practices as in sell us your shit at a negative margin or we will enter your business or as you said forced acquisitions and so on. Right down to the old practice amazon had that was similar to Microsoft’s Old hated policy and I do know Microsoft stopped I’m not sure amazon has.
Basically set a performance bar and all those under the bar get fired. Say you set the bar at 15% bottom 15% get fired no matter what.
Conservatives let me explain this in a way you’ll understand bottom 15% sounds pretty bad but many times in high volume groups the difference between the top and the bottom is pretty marginal.
Let’s say you run a packing business, instead of setting a packing goal you say the bottom 15% will be fired. Yes you will get quick immediate improvements but they won’t last or you’ll end up doing something stupid that you’ll regret.
You have 20 packers, they averaged 8 packages per day. You introduce the new policy now they’re averaging 12 packages a day but you also have more broken good and mispackaged stuff. Your top two guys are packing 14 items, next 3 are doing 13 packages the rest are doing 10 to 12. You fire the bottom two ten packers, then get a complaint for unfair termination because there still is a 10 packer working. The two new hires pack 10.
Managing like this is easy but super lazy and shows zero respect and destroys team work. Shit I’d sabotage
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