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Uber-Grubhub: How the pandemic is launching the era of online platform regulation

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    The article mentions Google Meet attempting to take on Zoom, but I think a more egregious example of the problem with big tech is that the most sought after feature during quarantine (Tiled view)...

    The article mentions Google Meet attempting to take on Zoom, but I think a more egregious example of the problem with big tech is that the most sought after feature during quarantine (Tiled view) was not officially supported by Google despite Zoom's popularity being possibly driven by it, and it took a single person at a university to build an extension that was used by so many people he couldn't handle the volume of legal requests he was receiving.

    Google was quick to implement such a feature on their own, but for a company that prides itself on its product and engineering prowess, it was certainly behind the curve. Innovation stagnation is a monopolistic tendency, and the disruption brought by the coronavirus seems to be uncovering market inefficiencies everywhere these days.

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