Frankly, antitrust laws should prevent loss leaders from being a thing in the first place. Whether it’s to get people in stores because of an amazing deal, people to buy into your ecosystem because hardware isn’t that cheap otherwise, or using venture capital to drive competition out of business by offering prices subsidized by investor money that others can’t compete with to drive them out of business and set whatever prices you want, it’s all anti-competition (especially the last one, that’s blatantly trying to set up a monopoly).
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HubertManne@piefed.social 3 days agoyeah. this is what im talking about. imagine if they encouraged it and yeah maybe they would have to stop selling at a loss but still if they just made their own system based on linux. I mean microsoft was their main competitor at the time.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 days ago
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Sony is way too into proprietary lock-in to have allowed that long term. Hell, I’m astonished they ever allowed the release of their games to PC. They’ll never do that again.
HubertManne@piefed.social 3 days ago
see that is just the thing. If they had went linux and relases their pc games as linux compatible but not windows compatible. I mean im thinking in that their box just became a kind of sony linux distro with their whole system made around it. Then like windows users would have to use a linux compatibility thing. I think this would have been a better play.
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Now I’m imagining a parallel time line where they went full in on linux and even put a custom linux build on their experia phones, sony viao laptops and the psp.
HubertManne@piefed.social 3 days ago
woa. I sorta forgot they had all that. sony could be the linux brand.