The curious case of Epic Games: how the developer beat Google but not Apple
www.theguardian.com
The Fortnite maker filed antitrust suits against both tech companies – while one emerged victorious, the other was found at fault on 11 claims

“Google has taken great pains to appear more open than Apple, licensing the Android operating system to third parties like Samsung and allowing users to install apps via other methods than the Play store. Apple does neither. When it comes to exclusivity, Apple has become synonymous with “walled garden” in the public imagination. So why did a jury find that Google held a monopoly but Apple didn’t?”

  • random65837@lemmy.worldEnglish
    419·
    11 months ago

    Because in practice, the term “Monopoly” is subjective. Anti-business, anti-capitalist call every big business a monopoly, whether it is or not. They think anticompetitive means not actively helping your competition get ahead of you. Actual monopolies are almost always a creation of government regulation, which is why they get away with it.

    • 5200@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      11 months ago

      That is a silly thing to say. Being big AND abusing your market power in an anti-competitive way is being a monopoly.

      • If you sell my competitors product, you will not get the discount all other clients are getting, and your orders will go to the bottom of the pile. (Intel crushing AMD)
      • If you offer your product on any other point of sale, your product will never be highlighted. (Amazon to any seller)
      • You have no other choice than to buy electricity from us, so you will pay whatever price we say. (Power companies)
      • We will hard-code all our applications to use our own browser, make changing the default as convoluted as possible. (Microsoft in the browser select)
      • If anyone other than us repairs our product, the software will simply not allow you to use the product. (Apple, John Deere, many other companies)
      • We will take all the sales data, find the biggest earning products, have them produced for us too, and then undercut your product and bankrupt you by always pointing the customer at our knock off version instead of yours. (Amazon again)

      How are these A cReAtIoN oF GoBeRmEnT ReGuLaTiOnS?

    • puppy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      Can you explain how Microsoft became a monopoly because of government regulations in the 90s?

    • puppy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Can you explain how Microsoft became a monopoly because of government regulations in the 90s?