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SWORDF1SH on 24 January 2015
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Ka-pi96 said:
SWORDF1SH said:

It's to avoid companies monopolising markets. It's actually good. Just think of the effect it woulf have on us consumers if, for example, 1 company provided electricity. That company could charge what ever it wanted and we would have to just accept it. Competition is good and we need to keep healthy competition going.

If the Xbox App is mandatory for Windows 10 then some companies might have issues with it being on there hardware (Sony laptops etc). I'm not sure if Sony could do anything about it and it certainly doesn't break and monopolising rules.

If any company were to have a monopoly like that though where they are taking advantage of their position and charging more then it should theoretically be easy for another company to start competing with them there. Maybe not in some industries, but it's definitely possible for software.

If companies don't want it on their hardware then they could just sell it with a different OS if that's what they want. Although, didn't Sony sell off their laptop business already?

But this is why we have laws against monopolising because if a company gets to powerful and rich it might cost 100 of millions for anoter company to compete. And if a company did start to compete the bigger company will have enough funds to deal with it. Buy outs, multi-million $ marketing etc.

Windows pretty much has a monopoly much OSs. Now they have got a hold of it, we will probably never see a decent challenge to compete with windows.