They weren't a bunch of gremlins in a cave conspiring to commit "anti-trust violations" in 2005. They were smart as hell and invested in the right areas.
Microsoft would get hit with the same anti-trust Google is being hit with if Bing and Windows Phone were successful - they're getting away with it because they're terrible.
Inefficient markets are bad for humans and are bad markets. The allocate resources inefficiently. The google graveyard is (arguably) a case in point.
The reason Khan reached the FTC was because her thesis at college, made the case that amazon’s actions reduced customer welfare. A fact that was covered here, on HN. This isn’t something a community notices unless it matters to them.
You still killed the man regardless of intention.
Winning for who? Not for society as a whole, that's certain.
To put it in money terms so even you can understand it, how much time has been wasted globally because Google is peddling ads and spam sites instead of pointing people to useful results?
Is that free? We should substract it from the GDP calculations if you ask me...
“I don’t like the law and its application” isn’t an argument.
[1] https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...
If you allow one company to achieve market dominance, it suffocates the ecosystem and stifles evolutionary growth pressures. It's concentrated malinvestment into a local maxima that salts the playing field so thoroughly that escape velocity is unattainable by anyone else.
There are models of this. And historical anecdotes and evidence.