• warm@kbin.earth
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    10 hours ago

    Technically Steam isn’t a monopoly by actual definition.

    What you, and others often mean with the term, is that they hold a majority market position.

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      9 hours ago

      Not to mention the companies that have legal decisions declaring they are a monopoly when they are only 80%+ of a market are in the context of those companies (Microsoft, google) behaving in an anticompetitive way using their majority market position.

      So not technically a monopoly and not comparable to legally declared monopolies.