[jonhohle]

So if a business mode is successful, regardless of whether it’s actively thwarted competition or acted anticompetitively, it should be regulated?

It’s not the web. It’s not a PC. It’s a sandboxed console.

> MO they can either keep the duopoly and deal with regulation or they can keep full control of their platform.

Then they’ll keep they’re platform and not be regulated ;-) (I know what you meant).

[CivBase]

> So if a business mode is successful, regardless of whether it’s actively thwarted competition or acted anticompetitively, it should be regulated?

Yes. If a product becomes essential for participation in the economy and lacks substantial competition, regulation is the only mechanism we have to protect the people. Why should it matter how it got there?