[scientismer]

That may be so, but you can still buy from the competition.

[joshspankit]

I feel like you’re either missing critical information about how companies can make that impossible, or you know and you’re “doing a bit”.

Let me say this outright: Sometimes the “competitors” are working together to maintain a monopoly.

[scientismer]

If they do that, they open a door for another competitor.

Of course it is all a bit more complicated. But by and large it works.