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Re:Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B by true_religion on Friday September 16, 2022 @10:31AM (#32866521)
In the YouTube example, Google already had in house tech. Google videos even continued to run for a few more years.
Re:Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B by spiderice on Friday September 16, 2022 @11:54AM (#32867897)
Why are we just taking for granted that the Youtube acquisition wasn't anti-competitive? There is a reason that Youtube hasn't had any competitors in the 15 years that Google bought it. It's because video can't be done as cheaply as Youtube does it, unless you have an entirely separate industry propping it up. Selling on product at a massive loss and propping it up with a separate industry is anti-competitive.

Nobody can compete on Youtube-style video unless they first create Google. If that isn't true, where are the competitors? TikTok is the first one to even resemble a competitor, but it took 17 years and even that isn't really the same thing.