The technological innovations of the last fifteen years, from advertising enshittifcation to AI cheating, have largely been a disaster. We are sadly at the point where, as Ted Gioia says, “mo…
We stop the acquisitions. We work out ways to foster innovation and protect patents only in the short term.
We need more than a couple phone manufacturers, we need more than a couple of food producers. All of these monolith mega corporations keep smaller upstarts from coming up and competing.
Unfortunately some things will IMO always remain a natural monopoly. For example good luck trying to convince developers to write their apps for all those different operating systems.
And it’s hard for anyone to say no to multi-millions that will change your family’s life by selling when it’s not even 1% of the corporations profit. Can’t blame them for selling out really. I’d do the same thing and so would you.
We stop the acquisitions. We work out ways to foster innovation and protect patents only in the short term.
We need more than a couple phone manufacturers, we need more than a couple of food producers. All of these monolith mega corporations keep smaller upstarts from coming up and competing.
And more than a couple operating systems. We get a lot of horrifyingly bad compatibility issues from Apple, and to a lesser degree, Google.
Unfortunately some things will IMO always remain a natural monopoly. For example good luck trying to convince developers to write their apps for all those different operating systems.
They could still be compatible, though. it’s possible even today, to some degree
Yeah, Java slogan was code once, run everywhere for a reason.
Doesn’t have to be that way
Most of those apps could be replaced by a website that will work anywhere. But a website can’t spy on you as easily… so they push apps instead.
And it’s hard for anyone to say no to multi-millions that will change your family’s life by selling when it’s not even 1% of the corporations profit. Can’t blame them for selling out really. I’d do the same thing and so would you.
We can at least stop crap like this
https://www.confectioneryproduction.com/news/49392/mars-moves-to-deliver-35-9-billion-kellanova-takeover-including-flagship-pringles-brand/
They actually said in their review of the sale that they’ll be able to do better price fixing even if grocery stores demand price cuts.
Don’t buy Pringles.
Or
Kellogg’s, Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies, Frosties, Coco Pops, Special K, Krave, Miel Pops, Crunchy Nut, Pringles, Cheez-It, Pop-Tarts, Rice Krispies Treats, Nutri-Grain, RXBAR, Eggo, MorningStar Farms, Mars bars, 3 Musketeers, Milky Way bars, M&M’s, Skittles, Snickers, Twix, Bounty , PEDIGREE, WHISKAS, ROYAL CANIN, AniCura, WISDOM PANEL, VCA, Ben’s Original, Dolmio, Tasty Bite, Seeds of change
I could boycott all of them easily: most I haven’t had, and the rest I have very rarely.