7th February 2022, 5:57 AM
Again, don't trust a thing Sony says. They're not legally obligated to their words, because all it was was an empty promise to fans. Nothing more. Unless those words are directly attached to a sale to someone, legally it's not "false advertising".
In any case, my definition of a monopoly works like so very many things these days. It's not a binary "is or isn't" thing, it's a sliding scale, with "less monopolistic" on one end and "more monopolistic" on the other. I've found over the years that granularity is far more useful when defining words than binary definitions are. For example: Gender, sexuality, wealth.
With a more granular definition, it becomes downright easy to call this industry consolidation "more monopolistic".
In any case, my definition of a monopoly works like so very many things these days. It's not a binary "is or isn't" thing, it's a sliding scale, with "less monopolistic" on one end and "more monopolistic" on the other. I've found over the years that granularity is far more useful when defining words than binary definitions are. For example: Gender, sexuality, wealth.
With a more granular definition, it becomes downright easy to call this industry consolidation "more monopolistic".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)