Beats Quote by Cory Doctorow

Open platforms encourage innovation. Whenever you have a closed platform, a monopoly on commerce, and all these platform rules, it stifles innovation.

— Tim Sweeney

Many businesses with unpopular products or inefficient production find it much easier to curry the favor of a few influential politicians or a government…

— Charles Koch

Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new…

— Walt Mossberg

I'll say, as a general matter, look, if you look back at history - right? - the moments when incumbent platforms feel most threatened…

— Lina Khan

It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform.

— Gary Hamel

“Power and profit structures're out of cahoots with current technology. Aware of new inventions, corporations put them aside, waiting for competitive reasons until they're…

— John Cage

I think we've seen all sorts of instances in which monopolies, once they become incumbents, are not incentivized to innovate in the same way.…

— Lina Khan

In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without…

— Gabe Newell

There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.

— Jimmy Wales

Our legacy platforms have served us well for decades, but we're running out of upgrades that will keep us ahead. Technology is changing too…

— Mark Esper

All disruptive innovators make it easier and more affordable for people to do what matters to them, and follow a strategy that doesn't at…

— Scott D. Anthony

Incumbents don't like it, but political competition is a good thing. Incumbents usually outspend challengers by better than 3 to 1. Super PACs, which…

— Bradley A. Smith