Author Disagrees with Monopoly Claims, Highlights Long Tail of Alternative Providers
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Summary
The article discusses the author's disagreement with claims about market monopolies, arguing that while dominant players exist in many domains, there is actually a long tail of alternative providers available. The author describes their personal process for evaluating solutions at work, using sites like g2.com to review top providers while acknowledging that time constraints prevent exploring hundreds of available alternatives.
Key quotes
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Whenever I am looking for a new solution to a need at work, I would go to sites like g2.com to look at the lists of the most popular ones, and would then typically skim reviews of the top ~10, and more fully evaluate the top ~3.
But there are often hundreds of alternatives that I haven't given a chance to, and I know that it's my need to manage my limited time that's promoting this olig.
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