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72% of devs believe Steam has a monopoly on PC games, according to study (www.gamesindustry.biz)
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[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

The monopoly ruling that you are referring to IS focused exclusively on search engines.

Excellent, let's review an incomprehensive list of competing search engines:

  • Brave
  • Bing
  • DuckDuckGo (previously mentioned and you ignored)
  • Yandex
  • Kagi
  • Yahoo
  • Baidu
  • Ecosia
  • Qwant
  • AOL

In short, Google has WAY more competition in the search engine industry than Steam has in the PC game purchase industry. So maybe learn WTF you're talking about before being a dick.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Jesus dude, you should really stick to things you know literally ANYTHING about. Half the search engines you listed are literally using the same engine. I guess Google should have hired you as their attorney.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
  1. It doesn't matter. They're still competition. Google does not make any money if you use DDG.
  2. And what about the other half?

Are you actually going to engage with the point or continue lobbing personal insults and deflecting?

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You still haven't explained how the existence of Apple and Firefox mean Google should have prevailed in the lawsuit. Why don't we start there or are you just interested in dancing around how ignorant you are?

[–] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Insults and deflection it is. Everyone can see through your arrogant nonsense. Goodbye.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

Yes, I deflected to asking you to start making sense. Sorry for that.

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Half of these are Bing and Google. Well, most other than Kagi.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 0 points 2 days ago

No, one of them is Bing. None of them are Google.