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So you say! I included a cone for FREE with my ice cream. I have dropped the price to zero! If we banned ice cream trucks from selling cones, surely an indepen

So you say! I included a cone for FREE with my ice cream. I have dropped the price to zero! If we banned ice cream trucks from selling cones, surely an independent cone business would spring up if market demand existed. This contrived example is to prove my point - you claim I’m speaking absurdities, but if I claim bundling a database (or caching solution, or search engine, whatever) is merely a convenience, you cry foul. Nothing is logical here

hattmall 4y ago
Your example is not analogous. It is more accurate to say you are an ice cream seller and the only ice cream seller. Their is a thriving market of sellers for donuts and you wish to sell donuts so you give away free donuts with all the ice cream you sale. Not because this is your value proposition, but because you wish to make the donut business untenable for anyone other than the largest ice cream seller. That is antithetical to competition. There should be limits or a prohibition on subsidizing horizontal or vertical business integrations. The limits should be related to the long term consumer value proposition.