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Microsoft Overtakes Apple as World's Most Valuable Company (www.macrumors.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Microsoft Overtakes Apple as World's Most Valuable Company::Microsoft today overtook Apple as the world's most valuable public company by market value. Apple's share price dropped by just one percent,...

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Cool. Let’s break them both down and replace them with a thousand smaller, employee owned, and ethical companies.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Fragmenration is not preferred by most users and many of the services and systems these two run require large international teams. That's not to say that they don't need to be checked by antitrust.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

What would the world look like if we fragmented the tech giants but then regulated them by requiring open standards so that things could mix and match as customers see fit?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Baby Bell the shit out of both of them and make it stick longer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

whats the difference if edge for instance is from another company?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I am not saying that it couldn't be split but a thousand companies doesn't sound a good idea. Some of the stuff they do cannot be done at that size I would suspect.