Insane to block a deal based on crystal ball predictions of a future market, by that logic, you can block pretty much every acquisition in a nascent market, Lol. Far too much power, CAT HAS to side against CMA on this. The maths simply doesn't support them either.

Kind of wish Microsoft dropped it but at the same time I 100% understand why they're fighting it, the conclusion is completely irrational and it sets a very bad precedent which could also hurt Microsoft in other acquisitions. Not to mention, it's worth it financially, Lol.

Not just for Microsoft though, blocking an acquisition based on speculation for future markets which might not even exist is a very dangerous precedent to set for the tech industry and M&A's and in fact damaging to certain nascent markets which grow via acquisitions.

Look at the points for blocking it.

Do you honestly believe that if there was a genuine problem with their manufacturing line, Bloomberg (and the whole media, actually) wouldn't be all over it by now? 

I only see two options for this 1) They are intentionally not manufacturing enought units, or 2)The demand is simply not there.

And about their forecast; companies very rarely get those numbers down to a T (they didn't for this forecast) so just because they are forecasting a growth of about 4%-9% for gaming, doesn't mean the actual numbers can't end up being either above or below those expectations. Furthemore, the fac that they keep not giving guidelines for hardware tells me that they 100% know that it is going to be down YoY, so that also tells me that they 100% know the reason why it is going to be down.

What was the provider that MS did not offer the deal to? Amazon? Maybe should have done that if so... 

Amazon never made a single objection to the deal.

Amazon also doesn't even put their own 1st parties onto Luna.

I doubt Luna will survive for long.

Let's say CAT sides against CMA. Surely CMA has to re-evaluate their reasoning for blocking and actually address any arguments Microsoft presented in their appeal. So they can't say like "yeah we already came to a final conclusion previously so fuck your fancy facts".

It's already baffling enough that the same authority will make the decision on appeal :P

I wish anyone here the best of luck when venturing out of empire today lmao. I loled.

Quite frankly if this was the reason why then it is really typical British attitude isn't it? How can CMA justify acting like a worldwide regulator, demanding concessions to apply worldwide but also in the same sentence say "we're too lazy to monitor anything so we'll just block all behavioural remedies" without taking into considering what the rest of the world thinks?

If this was a major factor in blocking the deal then my response would be for CMA to never demand that concessions apply worldwide again if they can't be bothered to put the work in, ultimately, the decision likely remains the same but I hate the arrogant "we'll decide for everyone else" attitude on display here.

Yeah I'm thinking CMA may want their decision to apply worldwide but they can still only make it if that market in UK is impacted.

Yes, they have to "fix" their mistake and then make another judgement on the case using the correction.

Depends what/if CAT deems to be a mistake, usually the bar is irrationality on data, or a bad procedure, as an example, CMA hid some market data from Facebook which CAT said they shouldn't have done, CMA corrected it but still ultimately blocked their attempted acquisition of Giphy.

I don't know of any cases where CAT has outright said to CMA that their market data/interpretation of the data is trash, Lol.

Yeah, I'm not, I can imagine how insufferable it will be, Lol.

Fuck da Mod tag. I've got enough to deal with elsewhere, Empire & Ukraine are mah focus.