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Instagram became big because of Facebook’s cross promotion and adTech.

YouTube had huge storage and bandwidth costs and was about to be sued out of existence.

Tumblr wasn’t exactly doing great before being bought by Yahoo and Yahoo wasn’t exactly a monopoly when it acquired Tumblr and its current owner is definitely not that big.

How do you think Android would have succeeded when better funded companies like Microsoft, RIM and Palm failed to make a dent?

Beats was already profitable before being acquired by Apple. No one can credible claim that Apple has a “monopoly” on headphones or in streaming music.

parent scarface74 3 years ago

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