Newell had requested a remote deposition in the Wolfire v. Valve case because of concerns about contracting Covid-19.
  • 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.