> Start with monopolies: tech companies are gigantic and they don’t compete, they just take over whole sectors, either on their own or in cartels.

>Google and Meta control the ad market. Google and Apple control the mobile market,

“Tech companies are monopolies”, proceeds to describe how tech companies compete with each other.

hippo22 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A market with only two players isn't much of a market.

	▲	NitpickLawyer 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		TBF on the LLM side we currently have 4 big players, and a bunch of smaller ones. Plus a healthy bunch of open models, lagging ~1y behind SotA. The best thing for us consumers is that it stays this way. Any of them winning would be bad in general.
	▲	ares623 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Or nowadays, any number of players. Now that market data is made available by brokers and decisions can be colluded based on such data.

> or in cartels