Newell had requested a remote deposition in the Wolfire v. Valve case because of concerns about contracting Covid-19.
  • Rose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    11 months ago

    Can you provide a real-world example of what constitutes a monopoly in your eyes?

    • pandacoder@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      11 months ago

      Locked down App Store on iOS (EU is trustbusting this one)

      Locked down PlayStation ecosystem

      Locked down Xbox ecosystem

      Locked down Switch ecosystem

      Regional monopolies by ISPs

      • Rose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        112·
        11 months ago

        So they are still not absolute in that the users still get to buy a PC or an Android phone or get satellite connectivity via a global ISP, which boils the issue down to inconvenience/cost/hardship, not the absence of alternatives.

        • pandacoder@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          They are all monopolies in their ecosystem.

          (Satellite Internet doesn’t reach everywhere.)

          You got a list of monopolies, stop trying to move goalposts in order to slam Valve and defend a bunch of anti-consumer publicly traded companies.

          Standard Oil was a monopoly, but using your logic there wasn’t because there was an alternative of not using oil-based fuels.

          An example of a company that actually fits your definition of a pseudo-monopoly would be Nvidia in the GPU market.