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By that logic you can always make up a group in which a company controls 100% of the market. Walmart should be forced to sell competitors products because they
by Aaargh20318 3y ago
By that logic you can always make up a group in which a company controls 100% of the market.
Walmart should be forced to sell competitors products because they control the whole market for Walmart customers.
- withinboredom 3y agoIf your only choice is to shop at Walmart, this sounds like a reasonable definition of a market.
- Aaargh20318 3y agoBut it’s not your only choice to shop in the App Store. Having an iPhone does not prevent my from buying an app from the Play Store on my Android phone, from buying a game from PSN on my PS5 or from buying a book from Amazon on my Kindle.
- withinboredom 3y agoWoah, I can install a game from PSN on my iPhone!? I must have missed that feature... /s We already know the players in the market will conspire to increase prices artificially if given the chance (United States v. Apple Inc., 952 F. Supp. 2d 638 (S.D.N.Y. 2013)). So, no, I don't believe these are actually one market because not even the players think it is one marketplace. They argue this exact illusion to keep anti-trust from applying to them, but behave as if it isn't a single market. All we need is for lawmakers to change what the definition of a market is, in order to deal with this loophole.
- mrmanner 3y agoMoving to an area with more grocery stores is orders of magnitude more demanding than selecting another operating system next time you upgrade your phone or computer, though.
- withinboredom 3y ago> orders of magnitude more demanding than selecting another operating system Having switched from Apple to Microsoft Phone to Android and back to Apple ... I disagree. In that time, I've moved states and even countries. Moving is far less demanding than switching operating systems. Moving is pretty simple: you pack, move, then unpack; and you even get to keep all your stuff! Switching operating systems requires researching for similar apps, purchasing them again, potentially copying music/photo libraries using sketchy tools, hunting down tutorials for how to do things you don't know how to do, etc.
- mrmanner 3y agoI don’t agree: Specifically if you live somewhere with only a single food store, there’s a decent likelihood that you’re either heavily invested in the area (farming, forestry, …) or that you can’t afford to live anywhere else. More generally, moving means leaving friends, forcing kids to change schools, and if moving far, learning new laws and customs. Not to mention that packing and moving all that stuff takes days and/or costs thousands of moneys. Extracting files from Google Drive and iCloud is a pain, but is it _that_ bad?
- withinboredom 3y ago> More generally, moving means leaving friends, forcing kids to change schools, and if moving far, learning new laws and customs. Moving the goalpost are we? Sure, if you keep moving it far enough, long enough, then yeah, you'll find a set of conditions where this is no longer true (such as having a family, friends, changing schools, etc). > Extracting files from Google Drive and iCloud is a pain, but is it _that_ bad? I take it you haven't done it. Put your money where your mouth is and just switch. It's that easy, right?
- bmicraft 3y agoIf you're moving far enough to have "access to other supermarkets" you by definition don't have access to the same school and friends anymore
- graemep 3y agoIf Walmart owned all the shops in a particular city, then yes, that should happen In fact regulators do not allow this to happen. For example, I know the UK competition regulators would not allow the same company to buy more than a quarter (IIRC) of the pubs in an area. Source: I heard the CEO of what was the biggest pub company in the UK at the time say it.