Microsoft Overtakes Apple as World's Most Valuable Company - eviltoast

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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    10 months ago

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

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      10 months ago

      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.

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        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?

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      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.