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Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight (www.theverge.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Well, I’ll be damned. They finally won one it sounds like.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

If I wanted to start a power grid company, I would need a fuckton of money as well. It's called a natural monopoly.

That's simply not what a monopoly is. You're confused.

A monopoly is when there's only a single energy company available, which is not the case here.

Tell me why no one is trying to overtake steam and why companies that actually try, are being flushed.

I already have. Lots of companies are doing that right now, but they all suck. I mean GoG is great as a simple game store but most publishers are not willing to sell without DRM and their store is mostly nothing more than just a store, where Steam is so much more than that.

Epic has a long history of anti-consumer behavior that has earned them a bad reputation. They're also partially owned by the CCP.

[+] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Did you even read your own link?

A natural monopoly is a monopoly in an industry in which high infrastructural costs... give the largest supplier in an industry...an overwhelming advantage over potential competitors.

This is for like, cell tower companies and stuff where infrastructure costs are in the billions. A game store has no infrastructural costs in excess of any other business.

You can't just call a business a monopoly because it costs a lot of money to compete with them.

You've replied to me 3 times now without ever answering my question about what anticompetitive measures Steam has taken to remain a supposed monopoly and thus I'm left to assume you're just trolling and will have to end this conversation. Goodbye.