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Re:Amazon's Whole Foods deal under scrutiny by electricEmu on Monday July 24, 2017 @09:41PM (#14844399)
Microsoft and Internet Explorer is pretty close. Browsers sold for money. Microsoft entered the browser market and undercut it. Through market dominance they owned the market requiring anyone that wanted to access some parts of he web intact on Windows.
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Re:Amazon's Whole Foods deal under scrutiny by sokoloff on Monday July 24, 2017 @10:07PM (#14844522)
As a consumer now, is the problem that I have to save up my money and carefully choose which expensive web browser to "buy"?

At most, that's evidence of a new dynamic coming to a market, but I don't see the evidence of consumer harm from the phase 2 raising of prices in the browser market.

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Re:Amazon's Whole Foods deal under scrutiny by stale2002 on Monday July 24, 2017 @10:59PM (#14844770)
Ok, internet explorer.

At what point in history did microsoft drive out all its competitors, and then raise prices?

Oh wait. Never. They never raised prices and kept internet explorer free forever.

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