Signal was just one of many services brought down by the AWS outage.
  • jfrnz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    2 个月前

    There is actual competition though, from Google and Microsoft at a minimum.

    • Dragonstaff@leminal.spaceEnglish
      81·
      2 个月前

      3-5 companies in a sector is an oligopoly, which acts nearly the same as a monopoly. This is not “actual competition”.

      All of these companies cornered their own markets, and now they own the backbone of the internet.

      If we broke up all of them and required open standards and interoperability then other companies could innovate.

        • Dragonstaff@leminal.spaceEnglish
          31·
          2 个月前

          How much of the economy in the 60s was telecommunications vs how much of the economy today relies on the internet?