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Does your city only have one restaurant?

In the UK I see many places belonging to same place; same menus, same drinks but different style place to make it feel authentic. So yes.

So no. Same menu/web-pages; but served differently as per individual needs.

I mean, Chrome is also reskinned to serve a particular niche by a number of providers. I don't think that really cuts it in either case.

The article in context is not just about Chrome, but the various avatars it has manifested into.

They're starbucking us, man.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/77476/00011931251104...

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1545158/000119312512...

https://www.mondelezinternational.com/our-brands/

https://inspirebrands.com/

Mom and pops diners and the like seemed to all fail within a half decade of each other, here recently. Weird.

Can a restaurant scale to serve billions?

I don't know. But the original comment asserted universality:

> Natural progression of an industry. It always consolidates.

Yes, let's point to an industry with arguably the lowest barrier to entry as basis of good faith comparison to implicitly deny the existence of consolidation[1]. /s

[1] https://i.insider.com/5d0b8e5f638af2560c013925

If there were ten different browser engines to choose from, I don't think anyone would be complaining.

Though to play devil's advocate you would have ten conflicting ideas of how things should work.

If the original comment would have been something like the following

> Natural progression of an industry. They tend to consolidate.

then I would agree with your criticism of my nit-picking.

But what we got was:

> Natural progression of an industry. It always consolidates.

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