{"id":550,"date":"2013-02-08T11:02:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T15:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/?p=550"},"modified":"2013-02-08T11:02:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T15:02:41","slug":"gorilla-anti-trust-posturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/gorilla-anti-trust-posturing\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorilla Anti-Trust Posturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/2011\/11\/06\/the-gaaf-ecosystem\/\">big four<\/a> (Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook) continue to wield disproportionate influence over the digital ecosystem, these gorillas are having to worry a lot more about anti-trust issues. \u00a0Nobody wants to be <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Breakup_of_AT%26T\">broken up<\/a> like the Bell System.<\/p>\n<p>For example, last month, <a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20130116\/facebook-search-could-actually-be-great-for-google-why-antitrust\/\">Liz Gannes wrote<\/a> about Facebook&#8217;s search plans:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;the fact that Facebook has finally made its search intentions known could actually be really good for Google. That\u2019s because regulators \u2014 especially those in Europe, who are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20130110\/eu-still-wants-to-challenge-google-diverting-traffic-to-its-own-services\/\">in the thick of deciding whether to settle with Google over antitrust<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 now have the prospect of additional search competition to consider.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, Google now has Gmail, Maps, and Chrome on the iPhone, where Apple had <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5053232\/apple-rejects-mailwrangler-app-for-leading-to-user-confusion\">previously rejected apps<\/a> that &#8220;duplicate the functionality&#8221; of built in iOS apps. \u00a0But it doesn&#8217;t look good (in anti-trust terms) for Apple to reject competitive apps, and Google&#8217;s smart to get as many apps as possible to dilute Apple&#8217;s platform influence.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s net-good for consumers, as it increases the chances that more of our devices and systems will interoperate. \u00a0But what we really need are some new gorillas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the big four (Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook) continue to wield disproportionate influence over the digital ecosystem, these gorillas are having to worry a lot more about anti-trust issues. \u00a0Nobody wants to be broken up like the Bell System. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/gorilla-anti-trust-posturing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}