<story><title>An Economy of Godzillas: Salesforce, Slack, and Microsoft</title><url>https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/an-economy-of-godzillas-salesforce</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cafed00d</author><text>&amp;gt; it gave away its new product for no or low cost to existing clients, and bundled it with existing product lines. In a society with functional antitrust laws, such activity would be illegal. But alas.&lt;p&gt;I find this statement highly suspect. What kind of world do we want to live in where regulators delineate product areas.&lt;p&gt;I see Microsoft integrating Teams into their productivity product bundle as feature; not a bug. Otherwise, we run the risk of creating separate product areas and none of them working well together — it’a going to be a minor pain in the butt to email &amp;lt;user@outlook.com&amp;gt; with the pdf tchalla@ shared on Slack; deal with formatted paste&amp;#x2F;copy &amp;amp; whatever else issues.&lt;p&gt;I mean, products being integrated is the whole MO of companies like Apple, Tesla and literally every other company making physical things. Sure, you can sacrifice the integration for other features like breadth of choice, specialized user needs etc, but proposing regulations to keep them distinct and separate?! That modesty sound right, imho</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chii</author><text>&amp;gt; we run the risk of creating separate product areas and none of them working well together&lt;p&gt;or, have mandated open apis that _force_ products to integrate.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s what the web is today (mostly). Links, and embedable content (like frames). APIs and data.&lt;p&gt;The reason companies don&amp;#x27;t do this - as demonstrated fairly recently by google with their removal of xmpp protocols from google chat - is that open apis prevent lock. Open apis allows others to compete, and it is not in the interest of the existing incumbent.&lt;p&gt;IBM made a crucial mistake that apple didn&amp;#x27;t make when IBM opened the specs for their IBM compatible machines and drove down the price of PCs to what you see today - otherwise, i would predict that PCs would be just as expensive and incompatible as apple computers were.</text></comment>
<story><title>An Economy of Godzillas: Salesforce, Slack, and Microsoft</title><url>https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/an-economy-of-godzillas-salesforce</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cafed00d</author><text>&amp;gt; it gave away its new product for no or low cost to existing clients, and bundled it with existing product lines. In a society with functional antitrust laws, such activity would be illegal. But alas.&lt;p&gt;I find this statement highly suspect. What kind of world do we want to live in where regulators delineate product areas.&lt;p&gt;I see Microsoft integrating Teams into their productivity product bundle as feature; not a bug. Otherwise, we run the risk of creating separate product areas and none of them working well together — it’a going to be a minor pain in the butt to email &amp;lt;user@outlook.com&amp;gt; with the pdf tchalla@ shared on Slack; deal with formatted paste&amp;#x2F;copy &amp;amp; whatever else issues.&lt;p&gt;I mean, products being integrated is the whole MO of companies like Apple, Tesla and literally every other company making physical things. Sure, you can sacrifice the integration for other features like breadth of choice, specialized user needs etc, but proposing regulations to keep them distinct and separate?! That modesty sound right, imho</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shp0ngle</author><text>I have no idea how that happened, but one day, I found Teams suddenly automatically installed on my spouses computer; and not only auto-installed, but it auto-started on Windows start.&lt;p&gt;How? Why? It was probably bundled with Office and&amp;#x2F;or Windows.&lt;p&gt;MS got news-breaking fine for far less with Netscape before. But, nobody cares in 2020.</text></comment>