A good first step.
The best move would be to prevent giants from having so many hands in so many jars. The lines are hard to draw, but a good heuristic would be if they're stepping across industry boundaries.
Commoditizing your complement is great if you're engaged in war tactics against a few rivals, but when it's broadly applied to everything it's essentially a scorched earth campaign that has massive negative externalities for the entire capitalist ecosystem.
As an example and a prediction of the outcome of this behavior: in a decade there will be few movie studios left because Amazon, Apple, and Google ate them up so that they can keep eyeballs on their platforms.
Things we deal with today: browser monoculture, unilateral decision making, and erosion of ad blocking. Devices you can't repair that are the only way you can access certain sets of services. Etc.
If these were separate companies, the experience would be top notch for each piece, and user rights would be respected.
The best move would be to prevent giants from having so many hands in so many jars. The lines are hard to draw, but a good heuristic would be if they're stepping across industry boundaries.
Commoditizing your complement is great if you're engaged in war tactics against a few rivals, but when it's broadly applied to everything it's essentially a scorched earth campaign that has massive negative externalities for the entire capitalist ecosystem.
As an example and a prediction of the outcome of this behavior: in a decade there will be few movie studios left because Amazon, Apple, and Google ate them up so that they can keep eyeballs on their platforms.
Things we deal with today: browser monoculture, unilateral decision making, and erosion of ad blocking. Devices you can't repair that are the only way you can access certain sets of services. Etc.
If these were separate companies, the experience would be top notch for each piece, and user rights would be respected.