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The court is plain silly if it's concluding that multi-billion-dollar deals create resistance or diminishes incentives. If anything, it creates incentives by pr
by w10-1 2y ago
The court is plain silly if it's concluding that multi-billion-dollar deals create resistance or diminishes incentives. If anything, it creates incentives by proving that another search engine could make billions from smartphone fees alone.
- eli 2y agoIt’s an exclusive deal that prevents anyone else from offering a similar deal. Of course it reduces competition. The only question is whether it also violates the monopoly law. I’d encourage you to read the decision, I just pulled two paragraphs from a pretty exhaustive document.
- j_maffe 2y agoI highly encourage you to read about monopolies and their mechanisms. Competitors can be incentivized with a monopoly's profits all they want, the amount of money it'd take to enter the space is unfeasible.
- ryeights 2y ago>another search engine could make billions from smartphone fees alone. I’m not following… the search engine would be the one paying the billions.
- Spivak 2y agoThey're saying that if Google is willing to pay so much to be the default that there's positive ROI that another search engine could tap given the up-front investment to buy the spot.
- callalex 2y agoThen what is Google paying others for?