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The Power of Amazon, Google, and Apple

Submitted by tokiokobayas on Tue, 03/26/2019 - 17:39

    How would you destroy society as efficiently as possible if you were set on destroying modern society? What if you had the power to shut down Amazon, Apple, and Google--as if they were to fall off the face of the planet tomorrow. Say the databases for all three of these major companies were completely wiped, what would happen? Well for starters, Whole Foods, Ring, Zappos, PillPack, Twitch, and Audible, as well as other companies bought by Amazon would all crash and cease to exist. This would mean some of the largest online retailers, as well as the leading streaming platform will all cease to work. A large portion of the economy will suddenly just come to a halt, and the flow of money would completely flip. Then there’s Google, which own Youtube, Google Maps, Android, and more. With just these minor companies dying out, suddenly a lot of livelihoods built around social media, as well as most GPS navigation systems will stop working. Android phones will stop working, and now everyone with an Android has a lot of their connections cut off immediately. Finally there’s Apple, where suddenly if all their services stop working, then all their phones, laptops, desktops, watches, all would stop working. The amount of people who own either an Android or Apple phone is significant, especially in the U.S. where 86% of cell phone users have either an Android or an Apple phone.

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