Comment on Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 11 months agoIt’s a fucking stupid lawsuit in the first place. I can think of at least 5 different pc game storefronts anybody can use
Rose@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Can you provide a real-world example of what constitutes a monopoly in your eyes?
pandacoder@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Locked down App Store on iOS (EU is trustbusting this one)
Locked down PlayStation ecosystem
Locked down Xbox ecosystem
Locked down Switch ecosystem
Regional monopolies by ISPs
Rose@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So they are still not absolute in that the users still get to buy a PC or an Android phone or get satellite connectivity via a global ISP, which boils the issue down to inconvenience/cost/hardship, not the absence of alternatives.
pandacoder@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They are all monopolies in their ecosystem.
(Satellite Internet doesn’t reach everywhere.)
You got a list of monopolies, stop trying to move goalposts in order to slam Valve and defend a bunch of anti-consumer publicly traded companies.
Standard Oil was a monopoly, but using your logic there wasn’t because there was an alternative of not using oil-based fuels.
An example of a company that actually fits your definition of a pseudo-monopoly would be Nvidia in the GPU market.