Comment by ascorbic
6 months ago
This isn't a mundane explanation though: this is exactly the example Luca gives in the original thread. It's anti-competitive, because it's functionality only available to Google Meet. Google is using its browser monopoly to advantage its other products.
They are just trying to make their products better. Anti competitive behavior is generally perceived to be about doing things that put the company in question in a better position without improving the product.
Ask yourself the question - are customers better or worse off because of this?
That's not what anti-competitive means at all. Having APIs that Google Meet can use but competing products can't reduces competition, which makes customers worse off.
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Other companies are also trying to make their product better. If other products are not able to compete this can become a problem for the users.
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> are customers better or worse off because of this?
Worse. Google's Hangouts/Meet customers are better off, but everyone else is not. That's what anti-competitive behavior is: using your monopoly in order to advantage your own products at the expense of others.