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by AllenKids 5431 days ago
To stifle competition one not necessarily needs to form a cartel.

To stifle competition one can simply flood the market with goods priced under cost.

Besides, Google formed a cartel with Intel, they lost.

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Android is not priced under cost, it just has a different revenue model. Stifling competition happens when a company uses their cash reserves to sustain a product which is losing money, forcing smaller companies to leave the market. This is not what they're doing, at all.