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Market share is the differentiator in both scenarios.

• sschueller 12y ago
  So anti-competitive actions/feature/function is only a problem once you reach a certain market share?
  • grey-area 12y ago
    yep.
  • peterfirefly 12y ago
    Yes, in many jurisdictions that is the case.
  • matthewmacleod 12y ago
    Yes, of course. There's nothing wrong with refusing to interoperate with competitors. The market often works to take care of that to some extent. However, when you have one player which is manifestly more powerful than the competition, you don't have a fair market. The whole reason we have anti-trust legislation is the recognition that this isn't desirable, and that businesses with too much pressure can exert influence which is harmful to the market in the long term.
  • mobiplayer 12y ago
    Yes. Every regulation out there is (should be?) created to protect the weak from the powerful.
  • dragonwriter 12y ago
    > So anti-competitive actions/feature/function is only a problem once you reach a certain market share? Yes, the effect of laws that are about constraining harmful uses of market power depend, among other things, on whether or not an actor has market power in the market at issue. I'm not sure why this is surprising.