Cory Doctorow
đ€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So they say, oh, it's the iron laws of economics.
It's returns to scale.
It's the great forces of history.
So we got rid of competition.
So they don't really worry about competitors.
Mark Zuckerberg was able to buy Instagram.
Google was able to buy everything, right?
Take away Google's acquisitions.
This is a company that can't make a product in-house.
Everything they make in-house dies.
They've had one really successful consumer-facing product.
It was in the previous millennium.
It's a thing called Search.
Everything else they've made has basically tanked.
And what they do is they bought a mobile stack, an ad tech stack, a maps and navigation stack, documents and collaboration, server management, you name it, right?
They bought it from someone else and operationalized it.
They're not Willy Wonka's idea factory.
They're just like rich uncle penny bags, right?
They're just buying other people's ideas.
So you're going straight into my next point.