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How do you know? Had MS remained all-powerful, perhaps those entities may not have emerged. That’s the justification for anti-trust legislation. But if you like
by Hnrobert42 6y ago
How do you know? Had MS remained all-powerful, perhaps those entities may not have emerged. That’s the justification for anti-trust legislation. But if you like your markets saturated with monopolies, you’re in luck. The world is full of them and under the current administration anyway, they aren’t going anywhere.
- scarface74 6y agoIt’s easy. Google - came to dominance on top of most people using IE. The consent decree did not stop MS from entering the search engine business and there was no indication that the federal government would have stopped them from buying Yahoo if Yahoo had accepted their offer v Apple emerged from going almost bankrupt by selling music players. MS tried repeatedly to get in the music player business - partially by leveraging Windows Media Player and failed. MS was also early in the smart phone market and failed - not because of government intervention. Amazon - how did anything that the government do against MS help Amazon? Facebook - Facebook became popular almost a decade later when no one was worried about MS. What exactly do you think the government consent decree did that helped any of those companies?