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Anti-competitive tactics are entirely legal unless they have a good chance of resulting into, or furthering a monopoly.
by DenisM 17y ago
Anti-competitive tactics are entirely legal unless they have a good chance of resulting into, or furthering a monopoly.
- 124816 17y agoI have never seen "anti-competitive" being used in a positive light. A quick search shows it has mainly been used by prosecutors and plaintiffs to describe their adversary. You don't need to believe me though, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-competitive_practices http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-competitive_practices (We can /all/ trust wikipedia, right?) "Barriers to entry" is relevant.
- DenisM 17y agoRead the Sherman's Act instead of Wikipedia, it's quite unambiguous about this subject.
- 124816 17y agoThanks for the tip. European law is relevant in this case as well, and I'm not sure it requires a strict monopoly over the market. That said, clearly if iPhones were a small part of the mobile ad platforms, nobody would care if Apple limited the ads that could be shown on them. I don't think that's the case though. The point I was trying to make was: If we switched this around, and Microsoft had the number one smartphone, and they did something like this, regulators (though you're right, probably not American ones) would have them bent over a table.
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