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Bad analogy. It's more like, the company that controls the light bulb market, also controls most of the light fixture market, and decides to push for a new type
by dralley 6y ago
Bad analogy. It's more like, the company that controls the light bulb market, also controls most of the light fixture market, and decides to push for a new type of socket that they control the IP for.
Except in the real world, unlike this analogy, they can magically change the socket of their own light bulbs and fixtures over the air at any time.
- judge2020 6y agoBut if that socket uses 3x less power for the same light output, and the automatic update reduces the power usage of the entire world overnight, wouldn't it be a net positive? Although, I suppose it could still be viewed as an anti-competitive action.