The EU allege Google is rigging the mobile ad market by making sure handset companies who use their free Android operating system for their phones install Google as their partner for online search.

Well of course they are.  The idea is to drive traffic to your other properties. That’s the job of an ecosystem.

What’s going on here?

Is the EU just lashing out at a too-successful company who are disrupting industries and taking away jobs? Perhaps.

But it feels to me more profound. I believe we are on a collision course with tech gaints. A recent book claimed that as a society we  have boosted growth over prosperity and we are living with the consequences.

From 1990-1999, within a seven mile radius of SFO (San Francisco Airport), there was more market capitlization created than in the whole of Europe since World War II.

 

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