I would like for people to stop explaining why their competitors do not matter, as if that’s a counterargument to the claim ‘their competitors do not matter.’
My guy, even the first sentence on Wikipedia specifies “unfair” monopolies.
There’s like five clarifications just in the Background section about how it doesn’t cover businesses which capture the whole market simply by being the better choice. Those are still monopolies. By definition. Mono meaning one and poly meaning how are we still talking about this?
I would like for people to stop explaining why their competitors do not matter, as if that’s a counterargument to the claim ‘their competitors do not matter.’
The nuance that you’re missing is why they don’t matter, not that they don’t.
It’s not Valve’s job to slow down for them.
Who asked them to?
Being a monopoly is not a crime. Not in itself. But it’s still a thing, and it’s not complicated, and Valve has one.
Why Steam’s competitors do not matter… does not matter.
What makes Steam a monopoly is that they don’t matter.
Yes it is, lol.
Read up on The Sherman Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act, and the Clayton Antitrust Act.
My guy, even the first sentence on Wikipedia specifies “unfair” monopolies.
There’s like five clarifications just in the Background section about how it doesn’t cover businesses which capture the whole market simply by being the better choice. Those are still monopolies. By definition. Mono meaning one and poly meaning how are we still talking about this?