<story><title>U.S. states file updated antitrust complaint against Google</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-states-file-updated-antitrust-complaint-against-alphabets-google-2021-11-13/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>As more data comes out about Google, Apple, Amazon, one simple underlying thing becomes clear: a single company cannot be trusted to operate a marketplace &lt;i&gt;while also being a participant&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Apple&amp;#x27;s App Store insider knowledge lets them discover popular apps, then boot them off the platform when they decide to compete. Amazon sees what products are successful and profitable, then makes knock-offs which they promote over the originals. And now, reading into this, Google is manipulating their ad markets using inside knowledge.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s all very profitable.&lt;p&gt;If we cannot trust large companies to &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; abuse this kind of power, then they should be prevented by law from playing both sides. This may result in the breakup of some very large companies, akin to the 1934 Air Mail Act that broke up Boeing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>winternett</author><text>Just think about all the development and financial data and ideas that google has a direct untraceable back door into through running gmail, android phones, and chrome browser alone...&lt;p&gt;I have resorted to using an old school notepad for my development ideas pretty much. A software company I used to work for got shuttered just 3 months after a big software company paid the startup a visit to observe operations back in 98, I&amp;#x27;ve always been wary of corporate espionage since.</text></comment>
<story><title>U.S. states file updated antitrust complaint against Google</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-states-file-updated-antitrust-complaint-against-alphabets-google-2021-11-13/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>As more data comes out about Google, Apple, Amazon, one simple underlying thing becomes clear: a single company cannot be trusted to operate a marketplace &lt;i&gt;while also being a participant&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Apple&amp;#x27;s App Store insider knowledge lets them discover popular apps, then boot them off the platform when they decide to compete. Amazon sees what products are successful and profitable, then makes knock-offs which they promote over the originals. And now, reading into this, Google is manipulating their ad markets using inside knowledge.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s all very profitable.&lt;p&gt;If we cannot trust large companies to &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; abuse this kind of power, then they should be prevented by law from playing both sides. This may result in the breakup of some very large companies, akin to the 1934 Air Mail Act that broke up Boeing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ngngngng</author><text>Does this only go for internet companies? Or do you think it applies to Walmart selling its own Equate brand of everything or Costco selling its own Kirkland brand of everything?</text></comment>