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Re:Most Waymo Patent Claims Dropped in Autonomous Car Fight ... by dragonwriter on Friday July 07, 2017 @02:22PM (#14720745)
> It would be a prospective purchase in regards to autonomous driving software but Uber holds a current dominating market share in ride-sharing.

Do they? Specifically, do they have pricing power? Market share (even superficially dominant share) where competitors or substitute services are present and business moves in response to relative price changes isn't market power.

Re:Most Waymo Patent Claims Dropped in Autonomous Car Fight ... by wonder_bread on Friday July 07, 2017 @02:38PM (#14720897)
I would argue against that, I couldn't think of anything more powerful in an industry than a company that could use it's tens of billions of dollars in operating profit annually to fund their efforts to dominate ride-sharing as well. You are making a good point, but although there is a fine line in regards to its prospective market power until they can make it profitable and sustain it afterward, I don't see how this doesn't lead to bad things for them down the road even if it something like this did get approval