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by izacus 4145 days ago
Also by preventing any competition from forming, locking in your users and preventing them from leaving by taking their data hostage in proprietary services and formats, buying any possible competitors and doing price dumping from other services to make competition entering the field economically unviable.

As seen done by Amazon, Google, Apple and other large companies. Competition is awesome, but unfortunately someone "winning" the race can quickly lead to them controling enough of the market to prevent good competition from forming.

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Look back in history a few years. Everything you said was said with utter conviction about IBM in the 1980's, for example.