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by rolisz 1402 days ago
And Google Photos, which initially included unlimited compressed photo storage, killed off competitors and then changed it to 15 GB.
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Holly.. you made me understand why vertical anti-trust is a thing. (I'm slow..).

A single company, google, gives a photo-service for free, while making enormous bread through ads. On its own the free service would be dead on arrival but now it's sustained by the ads branch of the company, making it unbeatable. Then pure-photo-service competitors die and you get a monopoly.