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minus-squareRose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down12·11 months agoSo 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.
minus-squarepandacoder@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoThey 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.
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.
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.