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In the examples that you site, the acquisitions were complementary additions. In this case, Adobe already has a competing product suite.
by veritas20 4y ago
In the examples that you site, the acquisitions were complementary additions. In this case, Adobe already has a competing product suite.
- true_religion 4y agoIn the YouTube example, Google already had in house tech. Google videos even continued to run for a few more years.
- spiderice 4y agoWhy are we just taking for granted that the Youtube acquisition wasn't anti-competitive? There is a reason that Youtube hasn't had any competitors in the 15 years that Google bought it. It's because video can't be done as cheaply as Youtube does it, unless you have an entirely separate industry propping it up. Selling on product at a massive loss and propping it up with a separate industry is anti-competitive. Nobody can compete on Youtube-style video unless they first create Google. If that isn't true, where are the competitors? TikTok is the first one to even resemble a competitor, but it took 17 years and even that isn't really the same thing.