Standard Oil? Microsoft?
Though these companies ended up getting split up.
We didn't make anti-trust laws out of the goodness of our hearts but because doing nothing created monopolies.
Though these companies ended up getting split up.
We didn't make anti-trust laws out of the goodness of our hearts but because doing nothing created monopolies.
Instead they would opt for more classic techniques like threatening resellers by withholding access to their products.
My point is not that companies can't achieve market dominance, but that it's almost always short-lived - unless they have the power of the State propping them up. Like the multiple patents that MS got during the 90s, and which have extended until this day.