Re: My Dinner With Marc Andreessen

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On Sat, 6 Jul 2024, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On Fri, 05 Jul 2024 10:56:20 +0200, Andreas Eder wrote:
>
>> Free markets ten ro become oligopols, if not regulated.
>
> Case in point: the introduction of mobile phones. The Europeans decided
> that there had to be a common standard, rather than having every carrier
> build its own proprietary network. So they came up with a Government-
> mandated spec called “GSM”. Yes, it was a complex. bureaucratic spec, but
> it was a proper spec, with compliance tests and everything. So you had
> proper interoperability. The only thing that tied you to a particular
> carrier was that you got your SIM card from them. So switching carriers
> was as easy as getting a new SIM card.
>
> Meanwhile, in the USA, the prevailing ideology was “let the market
> decide”. So each carrier created its own proprietary network, and its
> customers were locked into that network.
>
> And so you had the interesting situation where, in Europe, you could buy
> your phone first, then decide which carrier to sign up to, whereas in the
> USA, you first chose your carrier, and then you had to buy your phone from
> them.
>
> And not only was the European system successful in Europe, it became
> popular in most of the rest of the world, too. So you had the situation,
> in the early days of Android, where a new model from Samsung or HTC or
> whomever would be available across the entire GSM-using world within a
> matter of days, while customers in the US had to wait another couple of
> weeks, for carrier-specific versions to come out for their particular
> carriers.
>

Except that neither europe nor the US are free markets, so neither can be 
used as an example.

In terms of european failure we can just compare european GDP (PPP) per 
capita according to IMF (58,838 USD) with the US (85,373 USD) to see that 
a more free society is a richer and more ethical society.

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