How many of the companies below would have ever brought a product to market if Apple hadn’t acquired them? Are consumers worse off for Apple acquiring them?
How would regulators know whether Apple acquiring the 100+ companies it acquired would be bad for consumers in advance?
Do you really trust regulators to be both competent and apolitical?
The positive: - more focus on profitable companies, as opposed to ones that will only be viable if acquired. - a more competitive market, which might be better in the long run for start-ups
That would probably exclude every single YC backed company.
Only two have gone public - DropBox and PagerDuty - and DropBox has never been profitable. I doubt any of them have ever been profitable.
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How would regulators know whether Apple acquiring the 100+ companies it acquired would be bad for consumers in advance?
Do you really trust regulators to be both competent and apolitical?
The positive: - more focus on profitable companies, as opposed to ones that will only be viable if acquired. - a more competitive market, which might be better in the long run for start-ups
That would probably exclude every single YC backed company.
Only two have gone public - DropBox and PagerDuty - and DropBox has never been profitable. I doubt any of them have ever been profitable.