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… David Pierce, Nilay Patel, and professor and author Tim Wu go all the way back to the invention of the phone to explain how AT&T came to rule the telephone industry, and how its monopoly status granted it the exclusive right to put whatever phone it wanted in your house. …
… Under the Biden administration, the Justice Department filed a massive anti-monopoly suit against Apple, which the Trump administration has so far kept going, accusing it of illegally dominating the smartphone markets. …
… How it started A long time ago, in 2004, the Federal Communications Commission laid down a rule designed to prevent a monopoly: No one company could broadcast to more than 39 percent of all the TV households in the United States. …
… But even that deal was potentially late — last April, during Google’s search monopoly trial, CEO Sundar Pichai said the agreement with Apple would hopefully be signed within months, resulting in a rollout by the end of 2025. …
… Subscriptions protect Campbell from the whims of fluctuating marketing budgets and an ad tech industry largely controlled by Google — which the DOJ ruled as an illegal monopoly in 2025. …
… Should they approve a lawsuit, however, Microsoft may find itself back in a hot seat it occupied more than two decades ago, when a court found it had an illegal PC operating system monopoly. …
… I’m not going out and buying a launch. Regular people aren’t buying launches; SpaceX is contracting with governments and big companies. Not to mention that they largely have a monopoly on getting things into space. …
… How are you going to get new users to consume the stuff you make? Ten years ago, 15 years ago, it was, “We’re going to put up links in the open web, and they’re going to drive a bunch of traffic to links. …