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They might want Netflix to survive in some form so as to avoid awaking the sleeping antitrust dogs. Same way as Microsoft found the Mac a useful argument again
by chalst 13y ago
They might want Netflix to survive in some form so as to avoid awaking the sleeping antitrust dogs. Same way as Microsoft found the Mac a useful argument against the "desktop monopoly" argument in the 90s.
- chc 13y agoIf they cared about that, I don't think they would be throttling Netflix.
- MagicWishMonkey 13y agoThey would simply enforce draconian bandwidth caps to disincentivize streaming altogether. It's not like many of their users could opt for a different service, anyway.
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- talmand 13y agoI seem to remember that pointing at the Mac as a defense against desktop monopoly charges didn't work out too well for them in the end.
- chalst 13y agoWhat happened to MS in the alternate universe where MS openly vowed to crush Netscape and were as good as their word, after Apple went bankrupt in the early 90s?
- talmand 13y agoThey lost their antitrust case, which most of the harshest judgements were reduced or overturned later in appeal. In the end it was determined that they were a monopoly, the results of which include the things you mentioned, and some of their long held business practices had to be changed. After that Netscape eventually came back, and better, as Firefox and Apple doesn't seem to be doing so badly these days. I'm not understanding your point about an alternate universe in your statement. I must be missing something.