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That's sorta the problem. No one can buy them, so nobody makes them. End result is that the economy stops functioning, nobody builds anything, and a perma-depression occurs. This can't be a good thing...

As for what stops company B from competing - it's the cost of tooling up all these automation centers and the risk that after all that, your "prey" may itself get better and nobody will buy your product. Microsoft was massively profitable for the 1990s. Google was massively profitable for the 2000s. Why did nobody compete with them? Because if they did, Microsoft/Google would crush them like a bug.



Let's examine your thesis by replacing Google with Microsoft in your third last sentence.

Microsoft was massively profitable in the 90s. Why did nobody compete with them?

Oh wait, Google did.

Why did they not get crushed like a bug?

Because they innovated.


Google didn't compete with Microsoft. They took advantage of a shift in the environment that made Microsoft irrelevant.

Microsoft is still as dominant in the desktop app world as they ever were. It's just that nobody cares about desktop apps.

(And eventually, the same thing will happen to Google and nobody will care about webapps, but not yet...)


Companies have and are competing with both MS and Google. If MS/G aren't competing fairly, that's why we have antitrust laws.




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