Thread: Has the internet leads to natural monopolies and will it be different for ebooks?
View Single Post
Old 06-27-2012, 12:57 PM   #28
teh603
Autism Spectrum Disorder
teh603 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.teh603 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.teh603 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.teh603 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.teh603 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.teh603 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.teh603 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.teh603 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.teh603 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.teh603 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.teh603 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
teh603's Avatar
 
Posts: 1,212
Karma: 6244877
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Coastal Texas
Device: Android Phone
Quote:
Originally Posted by Barcey View Post
The technology space is littered with once dominate players like this. It's not a monopoly, it's temporary market dominance and it can change very quickly.

Novell
WordStar
WordPerfect
Visicalc
Lotus 123
Ashton Tate (dBase)
Myspace
etc...
I'd agree on most of those; MS still has a lock on the desktop and laptop OS market, but with iOS and Android that could be changing in the not too distant future if the market jumps to tablets. There's already a virtual machine edition of Ubuntu Linux that can run on Android. I don't know how well it runs or how much of the repositories is available (or if I can change the frontend), but its there.

Quote:
Originally Posted by AJ Starr View Post
Which service is all the short homemade videos?
Its certainly not where everyone's sex tapes are. I've seen three or four sites dedicated to just that kind of stuff because Youtube doesn't allow it.
teh603 is offline   Reply With Quote