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Leveraging their position in one market to get a leg up on another market? No idea if it would stick, but that would be one fun antitrust lawsuit right there.
by pdpi 2y ago
Leveraging their position in one market to get a leg up on another market? No idea if it would stick, but that would be one fun antitrust lawsuit right there.
- brookst 2y agoFun fact: it’s only illegal to leverage a monopoly in one market to advance another. It’s perfectly legal for Coke to leverage their large but not monopolistic soft drink empire to advance their bottled water entries.
- pdpi 2y agoSure. The whole thing hinges on whether Google has a monopoly on whatever Google Books' market is (hence why I doubted it would stick). But given that some people seem to define "market" broadly enough to conclude that Apple has a monopoly on iPhones...