Today, I learned that Google filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft, claiming that their licensing practices are anti-competitive. I find it fascinating that even heavy taxes are applied to overseas competitors that sell their products in the West. If it weren't for these taxes, certain TV brands would be selling their products at a fraction of the cost of significant TV bands. To combat this, there are heavy taxes on their imported products, so they would need to sell their products at a higher price to recoup their losses from the tax, which brings them back up in line with all the other TV vendors. I used to think Monopoly was just the name of a board game, but then when learning about how the consumer market operates around specific products and how companies are not allowed to undercut one another to try and kill the other one so that they would be the only company left providing the service, only for them to raise the price right after was fascinating. That was a long way of saying that I find it crazy that this greed has even found its way into cloud services. Fun stuff.
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