One of my personal projects that I never pushed forward is a blog "a monopoly a day" (under-titled "keeps the EU away"). The idea is that everyday, I want to show small-ish negative impact of a big tech monopoly, and explaining it. The goal is that the sheer recurrence is enough to convince people of the negative impact on innovation and societal growth big companies have.
(That's with a pretty broad definition of "monopoly", including "user-specific monopoly" like you get with android / ios, notions that I would also try to explain in said blog)
One example:
> https://mobilesyrup.com/2016/09/27/why-blackberry-never-rele...
> I believe this one shows how a monopoly can prevent innovation. Blackberry with the Passport had a new form-factor. To make this phone worthwhile, it had to use a mainline OS. At the time, only Android with Google apps was available. However, Google rules back then couldn't allow this.
Would HNers be interested in such content? And in contributing to it? (my knowledge wrt monopolies is in my area of expertise, and let's just say I like being employable, so it's better if it doesn't look completely targetted)
(That's with a pretty broad definition of "monopoly", including "user-specific monopoly" like you get with android / ios, notions that I would also try to explain in said blog)
One example:
> https://mobilesyrup.com/2016/09/27/why-blackberry-never-rele...
> I believe this one shows how a monopoly can prevent innovation. Blackberry with the Passport had a new form-factor. To make this phone worthwhile, it had to use a mainline OS. At the time, only Android with Google apps was available. However, Google rules back then couldn't allow this.
Would HNers be interested in such content? And in contributing to it? (my knowledge wrt monopolies is in my area of expertise, and let's just say I like being employable, so it's better if it doesn't look completely targetted)