Comment on Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit
Rose@lemmy.world 11 months agoCan you provide a real-world example of what constitutes a monopoly in your eyes?
Comment on Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit
Rose@lemmy.world 11 months agoCan 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.
Rose@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s the logic of the comment I responded to. The existence of this upcoming trial alone is proof that the mere presence of alternatives is not enough to claim there’s no monopoly in the relevant market.