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There's a big grey area between two family businesses doing deals to help each other out and two dominant market players tipping the scales in their own mutual
by pcl 6y ago
There's a big grey area between two family businesses doing deals to help each other out and two dominant market players tipping the scales in their own mutual favor to keep out other players.
Problems ensue when the behavior is anticompetitive, and when one or more of the parties engaged in the behavior have a dominant position in their market.
This played out with Microsoft's abuse of its dominant position in the operating systems space to advance their browser ambitions.
Apple presents a really interesting case here, since they pointedly do not have a monopoly on mobile app stores -- Apple's mobile business is a minority player measured by device count, and a majority player by revenue. IANAL, and not even really an armchair one, so I really have no idea if their majority-revenue position matters, or is sufficiently dominant, etc.
- ziddoap 6y agoDefinitely agree that my analogy is on the opposite side of the spectrum, but it was the best I could come up with to try and establish where I was coming from with my question. As another user helped me understand with the context of this is there is a bit of an issue with Cook's denials to Congress vs. what's actually happening. And your point regarding scale is certainly understood. I suppose I'm just having trouble with where the line gets drawn, so to speak.