Re:Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know
by zardeh on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @08:47PM
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>Using one market (gmail) as leverage in another market (chat) is basically the definition of monopolization
No its not. Unless you're claiming that this is a form of product tying, but that would require that
1. Gmail held a monopoly or near monopoly over the email market at the time
2. hangouts was a service that people needed (or that to use gmail, you also were forced to use hangouts)
No its not. Unless you're claiming that this is a form of product tying, but that would require that
1. Gmail held a monopoly or near monopoly over the email market at the time 2. hangouts was a service that people needed (or that to use gmail, you also were forced to use hangouts)
Neither of those were the case.