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jacksmith21006 on May 17, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is c...

Which trick? Email? YouTube? Maps? Android? Chrome? Photos?

Not sure I am following? Looking at top 10 apps for all smartphones they own five of the top ten. Then at websites it is a similar story.

Can you explain?

chiefalchemist on May 18, 2018 [–]

Analytics and from that Ads. That's the trick.

Thiel takes them to task in Zero to One. Worth reading just for that.

jacksmith21006 on May 19, 2018 | [–]

Read it. The book is about creating monopolies not the opposite.

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