Comment on Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 7 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 7 months ago
Can you provide a real-world example of what constitutes a monopoly in your eyes?
pandacoder@lemmy.world 7 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 7 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 7 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.