What anticompetitive practices? This normally refers to things like selling at a loss long enough to destroy fledgling competition and the like. As far as I’m aware, steam just… provides good services that other stores don’t?
They aren’t publicly traded so put those fears to rest until Gaben dies (may that be FAR in the future), then we have to hope his successor has a similar mindset.
Forcing you to use a service when you have bought an unrelated service is anticompetitive. For example, bundling a particular browser with an OS, or forcing you to use a vendor’s store because you’ve bought a vendor’s product.
What anticompetitive practices? This normally refers to things like selling at a loss long enough to destroy fledgling competition and the like. As far as I’m aware, steam just… provides good services that other stores don’t?
I’m just hoping a VC firm doesn’t come along and hostile takeover them at some point, because that would be the death knell.
They aren’t publicly traded so put those fears to rest until Gaben dies (may that be FAR in the future), then we have to hope his successor has a similar mindset.
Forcing you to use a service when you have bought an unrelated service is anticompetitive. For example, bundling a particular browser with an OS, or forcing you to use a vendor’s store because you’ve bought a vendor’s product.
How is this relevant