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by tppiotrowski 838 days ago
I think there's concern that if you manage to buy 11% then you can keep expanding. We've all seen what happens when a company captures enough market that there are no alternatives left:

Netflix, Prime: commercials and limiting devices per household Gmail: no longer unlimited storage as promised OpenAI: still competing so remains to be seen

If these companies are being subsidized by investors to capture market those investors will want a return and things will get nasty.

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Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Paramount, Disney??? There's a crapton of players trying to make streaming happen, and no evidence that they're making massive margins.
Many people complain about streaming fragmentation not the other way around. And it's an extremely optional product.

And did Google ever actually promise unlimited storage for all time? (And there's still a lot of free storage. I finally broke down and added some more but just so I could avoind managing how much I was using.)