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Given some of their moves with Google Workspace tying together Gmail / Meet / Chat, I doubt they could get away with this without significant antitrust issues.
by s3r3nity 6y ago
Given some of their moves with Google Workspace tying together Gmail / Meet / Chat, I doubt they could get away with this without significant antitrust issues.
They still haven’t fully closed on their Fitbit acquisition, so I’d expect they’d have a tough hill to climb for a Discord or a Slack.
- texasbigdata 6y agoWould antitrust cover....a hypothetical unlimited budget de novo build? Sort of acquihiring without going after Discord employees.
- s3r3nity 6y agoIt would if they build a completely free product to price out competitors. Then there's an easy case to be made that they're leveraging market power / dominance in one market to undercut rivals in another (e.g. running this new service with negative profits to gain market share before eventually boosting prices later.)