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itopaloglu83 1 hours ago [-]
It’s a very thin and a political line between being a gatekeeper and a very successful company.
Are we soon going to say Spotify, ASML, and Carl Zeiss are also gatekeepers?
jraph 19 minutes ago [-]
For ASML and Carl Zeiss (which I didn't know about), it seems like a stretch from what I can read about them.
But for Spotify, why not?
> It’s a very thin and a political line between being a gatekeeper and a very successful company.
Of course.
If you are a tech company that becomes as successful as to be a monopoly or a participant in an oligopoly with a strong network effect, why wouldn't you be recognized as a gatekeeper?
baka367 1 hours ago [-]
In the age of staple shenanigans from the US with tariffs and AI prohibition, I find this to be an adequate response.
enz 2 hours ago [-]
> The trigger was outages in cloud services with sometimes significant impacts on other internet services. Shortly before, an approximately 15-hour outage of the AWS cloud in the US meant that not only Amazon's own streaming services but also Atlassian, Docker, Epic Games, and the Signal messenger were unavailable or severely restricted.
If I remember correctly, it was a us-east-1 issue specifically. Why is everyone hosted in us-east-1, especially in Europe where stable and reliable regions are available (eu-west-1, eu-west-3, ...)?
kalleboo 1 hours ago [-]
The issue originated in us-east-1 but had a huge blast radius beyond that - e.g. it took SES down.
Are we soon going to say Spotify, ASML, and Carl Zeiss are also gatekeepers?
But for Spotify, why not?
> It’s a very thin and a political line between being a gatekeeper and a very successful company.
Of course.
If you are a tech company that becomes as successful as to be a monopoly or a participant in an oligopoly with a strong network effect, why wouldn't you be recognized as a gatekeeper?
If I remember correctly, it was a us-east-1 issue specifically. Why is everyone hosted in us-east-1, especially in Europe where stable and reliable regions are available (eu-west-1, eu-west-3, ...)?