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Re:Google is investing $3.3B to build clean data centers in ... by wongarsu on Friday September 20, 2019 @11:20AM (#21027676)
You could argue about Microsoft. They started out by offering MSDos as a low cost option and now own close to the entire OS market.

Google is undercutting everyone in the mobile OS market. What once was a varied market died completely because nobody could compete with Android's "it's free if you agree to preload a bunch of Google apps" (iOS isn't really on the market since its Apple exclusive, LG can only reasonably choose Android). Google makes all that lost income back because this creates a monopoly for the Play Store, and massively helps other Google services.

Not really textbook examples, but that's because the textbook example of selling at a loss to kill all competition and then raise prices is illegal in most cases

Re:Google is investing $3.3B to build clean data centers in ... by icebraining on Saturday September 21, 2019 @05:21AM (#21034318)
Microsoft certainly drove almost everyone out of business, but I don't think you can accuse them of raising prices to cover for lost profits - a OEM Windows license is pretty cheap compared to other paid software, particularly before they started adding ads to it.