There's no fixed threshold. The dominance is determined by the court, based on multiple criteria. A 40% market share may be considered dominant, if competitors are all much smaller, the barrier to entry is high, or if the company is an unavoidable trading partner.
There's no fixed threshold. The dominance is determined by the court, based on multiple criteria. A 40% market share may be considered dominant, if competitors are all much smaller, the barrier to entry is high, or if the company is an unavoidable trading partner.
I feel like there's non-competitive environment for how all nations in the EU should be run and that it feel like the EU Parliament and Commission have a complete monopoly over how it should be ruled.
We need to break it up and make it easier for smaller people like me to influence it.
Is Google forced down anyone's throat? (Score:5, Insightful)
Google "denied other companies the chance to compete" and left consumers without "genuine choice."
We should start right there. Who forces anyone to use Google in the first place?
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Who forces anyone to use Google in the first place?
Nobody, but that's not relevant according to the law, which only looks at dominance (over 90% market share), not force.
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Nobody, but that's not relevant according to the law, which only looks at dominance (over 90% market share), not force.
So, what's the threshold? 85%? 80%? 40%? Do we know?
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There's no fixed threshold. The dominance is determined by the court, based on multiple criteria. A 40% market share may be considered dominant, if competitors are all much smaller, the barrier to entry is high, or if the company is an unavoidable trading partner.
Re:Is Google forced down anyone's throat? (Score:2)
There's no fixed threshold. The dominance is determined by the court, based on multiple criteria. A 40% market share may be considered dominant, if competitors are all much smaller, the barrier to entry is high, or if the company is an unavoidable trading partner.
I feel like there's non-competitive environment for how all nations in the EU should be run and that it feel like the EU Parliament and Commission have a complete monopoly over how it should be ruled.
We need to break it up and make it easier for smaller people like me to influence it.