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Comment by _notathrowaway | Hacker News Reader

Honestly, why should any regulator bother with this? It's video games, it is clearly not any kind of essential infrastructure/software.

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Not that regulators might care but game software shapes how young people conceive of software and IP issues. A company notorious for manipulating IP buying out a massive game company means entire generations of children and families will be exposed to this software as a service model of IP consumption.

At this point both Google and Apple have more end users than Microsoft.

Their "software as a service model of IP consumption" didn't seem to bother many regulators so far.

Sure but I'm really pointing out that children play games and that's a prime age to manipulate people's political expectations of the world. Like what toys and cartoons do. In contrast to the workplace software of Google or whatever subscription young people today might be willing to pay to use Apple's hardware.

It's still a market that affects a lot of people's lives. I think it's good for them to stop these huge mergers. Let the small to midsize companies fight it out, but we've had enough of these huge and getting huger tech companies strangling out competition and innovation.

So, only food, water, electricity and housing should be overseen by regulators?

Besides, with so many games out right seeking to get kids addicted, let's at least have some trade regulations. It's not like parents can ignore them.

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