I've seen this exact headline about over a dozen tech companies in the last few months, particularly in the games industry. How do we make sense of it? I am not accustomed to seeing companies that are doing well, as they all claim to be, discharging swathes of their labor force.

  • Maoo [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    It's also using its monopoly status to reap profits. If you want to easily listen to music and have shareable playlists - very simple things to do, technologically - the limiting factors are actually the music industry IP owners and the network effect of already having a critical mass of people, i.e. a natural monopoly.