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Your working definition of what an illegal anti-competitive use of monopoly power is seems to be the reverse of what I've heard before. Under your definition,
by true_religion 8y ago
Your working definition of what an illegal anti-competitive use of monopoly power is seems to be the reverse of what I've heard before.
Under your definition, Chrome is supporting the even stronger pre-existing monopoly Google has on search or ads, and therefore is bad.
Usually anti-competitive actions are seen as a player using its monopoly to support emergence into a new market, not to build a moat around an existing market they already are dominant in.
For example, under your framing, Microsoft's usage of Internet Explorer would have been bad not because it came pre-installed with Windows, but because it was Windows-only (or worked best on Windows) thus supporting the existing Windows monopoly.
I don't know if this reasoning can hold legally---merely because I have never seen it used before.
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoThe general concept of tying relates to connecting unrelated products, and using control of one to benefit the other. I'm doubtful the claim "the other product is already also a monopoly" is a usable defense for this practice's illegality.