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ConstitutionEconomicsGovernmentInternet/TelecomPolitics
Apple and Google Control 99+% of the US Smart Phone Market
by Seton Motley January 12, 2021When either behaves badly – it is devastating to We the People, when both behave badly – it is cataclysmic for We the People
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Big Tech companies are monsters.
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Internet/Telecom
Government Must Put Innovation First in Communications Innovation, Including 5G
by Bartlett Cleland August 10, 2018T-Mobile’s CEO John Legere and Sprint’s Executive Chairman Marcelo Claure discussed at length their combined company’s plans for 5G deployment if the government approves their merger.
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Economics
Apple Gets to $1 Trillion – Trafficking in Goods They’ve Stolen
by Seton Motley August 8, 2018The world last week was rightly agog when Tech uber-giant Apple became the first company on the planet ever to top a $1 trillion market cap.
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Apple Sues Qualcomm Over Patent Royalties: “Apple also wants back some of the billions of dollars it claims it was overcharged in ‘Qualcomm’s illegal scheme’ to control the market for mobile phone chips.”
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Have you wondered why stocks like Apple, Microsoft and Google continue to make big gains in the U.S. indexes such as the Dow-Jones Industrials? These are the kind of big, successful companies that central banks favor.
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Internet/Telecom
Government Cronyism – Looking To Stop The Power Of Technology And The Free Market
by Seton Motley June 3, 2017The big government cronyism racket – is absurd. It is a disjointed, discombobulated mess of ridiculous ideas and assertions – put forward in steadfast defiance of the fundamentals of the free market and human nature.
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Internet/Telecom
Apple: ‘We Won’t Pay You. We’ll Keep Using Your Stuff – But We Won’t Pay You’
by Seton Motley May 6, 2017Computer giant Apple is currently in a huge intellectual property dispute with tech innovation giant Qualcomm.
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GovernmentLegal Affairs
Intellectual Property: No One Wants To Pay – Everyone Wants To Get Paid
by Seton Motley March 25, 2017A litigation war continues to show IP hypocrisy throughout the world.
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Internet/Telecom
Apple Sues To Get Paid For Their Intellectual Property – And To Not Pay For Everyone Else’s
by Seton Motley March 11, 2017Hypocrisy, thy name is Apple.
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Internet/Telecom
Google’s Information Is Power – Info-opoly Power
by Scott Cleland September 20, 2016Who thinks it wise to allow a single company to corner the global market for any set of critical inputs to the global economy — like stocks, bonds, currencies, industrial metals, precious metals, energy resources, grains, food, or livestock — with no regulatory oversight, transparency or obligation to be an honest broker?
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
FCC’s Competition Policy Blind Spot for Dominant “Edge” Incumbents – GAFA
by Scott Cleland June 17, 2016The evidence increasingly proves that Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon, companies collectively known as “GAFA,” are the dominant consumer-technology, “edge” platforms/incumbents in their respective communication sector markets of: information, smartphones, social media, and ecommerce. The evidence below shows Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon to clearly be the emerging dominant communications incumbents of the 21st century communications sector ecosystem and that an apparent FCC assumption that “edge” companies cannot be a competition problem is both naïve and erroneous.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Heartland Daily Podcast – Jesse Hathaway: Apple vs. the FBI
by Jesse Hathaway March 16, 2016In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, we listen in as Research Fellow and Managing Editor of Budget & Tax News Jesse Hathaway joins AM Tampa Bay radio with Hosts Jack Harris and Tedd Webb. Hathaway joins the show to talk about the Apple vs. FBI encryption debate.