Comment on Epic judge says he’ll ‘tear the barriers down’ on Google’s app store monopoly
nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz 3 months agoGoogle was giving preferential treatment to certain companies and had a bunch of backroom deals going on and generally very anticompetitive behavior.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Right but is that actually illegal given the fact that you can sideload apps it’s not like they’re locking people out of their devices.
I don’t like it but I’m not sure it necessarily meets the criteria for illegality.
This makes this decision seem stupid. I have quite understand how US law works but I thought it was precedent based which meant that once one case had been decided that essentially decided all similar cases unless they were demonstrably different. I don’t understand why that isn’t the case here.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Having a “monopoly” isn’t illegal.
Using your “monopoly” position to pick winners and losers is.
mke@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Small addendum, I believe having an unfair monopoly is actually illegal in the US. Google search is currently on the hook for this.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Yeah, it’s not just the market position.
It’s how you gain the market position and what you do with it.
nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Correct, anticompetitive behavior on its own is legal, so is a monopoly, both at the same time are illegal