If you have the top market position already in browsers and search, pretty easy to get people onto a product like this regardless of whether better alternatives exist.

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balls187 5 days ago | parent [-]

Isn't that how MS and Google lost anti-trust cases?

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frfl 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

MS got hit kinda hard back in the 2000s right?

But since then most cases have been nothing more than slaps on the wrist? Have any major companies faced dire consequences for their anticompetitive practice.

So why would they stop using their market position in ways that benefit them and at worst result in minor fines or wrist slaps?

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amluto 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Are you sure they lost? If the CEOs had perfect crystal balls and knew that those particular business practices would result in the penalties that they got in their court cases, I bet they still would have done the same things.

	▲	balls187 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Not that I am an expert in each case, but as part of the evidence was that people in leadership/decision making positions were informed that their practices and conduct was unlawful. > Are you sure they lost? Well, Chrome and not Microsoft's browser is the dominant webbrowser, and at the heart of MSFT's anti trust case was bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. So, yes. MS did lose.