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# Are Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Monopolies?
- URL: https://www.philsimon.com/are-amazon-apple-facebook-and-google-monopolies/
- Published: 2011-09-19T06:25:16.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-30T02:34:20.000Z
- Description: Don't make me laugh.
- Author: Phil Simon
- Tags: Platforms, Strategy, The Age of the Platform, Video

Are modern-day platforms such as Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google similar to early and mid-20th century monopolies? Do Bezos and Zuckerberg resemble Carnegie and Rockefeller?

In short, no.

I weigh in on this subject in this short video.

## Simon Says: Let's use our terms responsibly.

Want to use a search engine other than Google? Go right ahead. Want to buy your books from a company not named *Amazon*? Nothing is stopping you.

[Sorry, Mr. Reich](https://www.philsimon.com/robert-reich-is-wrong/). It's just plain silly to think of Big Tech along the same lines as Big Oil or Big Steel.