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It's about whether a market strategy makes it hard to compete for others, not if they make money on it or not, esp. if a company operates on multiple verticals

• mankash666 8y ago
  No it's not. You cannot wripe away a monopoly's revenue stream in the name of regulation, you can however ensure that the competition isn't harmed in any way. Google should simply offer a choice - install whatever competitor's service, but license Android for $30. Like Microsoft does and gets away with. Would that seem fair to you? Because that chat eventually gets passed on to the end user.
  • jonathanyc 8y ago
    Antitrust law is for protecting competition; I think you’re confusing it with something else. It’s simply not the case that Microsoft “does and gets away with” antitrust violations because of charging money, this is mentioned in the article. Also, I realized I’ve seen you a lot in these sorts of threads posting fanatically pro-Google stuff, what’s with that?
    • mankash666 8y ago
      I'd suggest you keep your personal judgements like 'fanatically' to yourself. HN steers clear of personal attacks
• rcMgD2BwE72F 8y ago
  Similarly, if Google have billions in the bank, they can easily offer the Google Maps API free to all and kill any competing service (that took years to develop and lots of money to build). Once all the competitors have gone bankrupted or pivoted to find a source of revenue, Google can simply jack up the price of the API and cash in. Sure, Google loses developers' trust with this behavior in the long term, but it has worked so far for the monopoly so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯