Re:EU wants Google to stop anti-competitive Android practice...
by ocdtrekkie on Saturday October 01, 2016 @03:15PM
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It seems incredibly hard for people to grasp how antitrust law works. It's very simple: Antitrust law only affects those with a massively dominant control over a market.
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Re:EU wants Google to stop anti-competitive Android practice...
by mwfunk on Saturday October 01, 2016 @04:12PM
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Exactly. If you're not a monopoly (or otherwise massively dominant in the market you compete in), antitrust law doesn't apply to you. Antitrust law is specifically to guard against the situation where one player in a market is so dominant, that the market itself becomes less competitive.
Although usually when I hear people misuse antitrust concepts on tech forums, they're not trying to understand complicated legal conflicts, rather they're grasping at straws to use as ammunition in dumb flamewars about platforms/companies/etc. that they don't like.