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0 pointsnomad5435y ago0 comments

If someone gives people free beer while driving out competitors or preventing potential competitors form starting a business, then it's dumping. No company should be entitled to decimate competition using dirty strategies.

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andromeduck5y ago

1. Loss leading is not dumping.

2. Plenty of competitors in the storage space are still thriving including Dropbox, Box, Microsoft OneDrive, Backblaze, Amazon Drive, Apple iCloud, etc.

3. There's even more more competition on the photo sharing side of things like Instagram, Flickr, SmugMug, 500px, imgur, imageshack, Facebook, 1x, photoblog, etc.

4. Photos isn't even the largest service nor Google the most influential player in either sector.

dredmorbius5y ago

Loss-leading to dissuade, discourage, weaken, or preempt market-based rivals is precisely dumping.

https://traderiskguaranty.com/trgpeak/history-anti-dumping-c...

Or more properly, predatory pricing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing

andromeduck5y ago

Read your own links please and FYI Google Drive/Storage was far from the first to offer free storage, not by a long shot. Dropbox and Microsoft were offering of free storage years before Google even launched Drive. Free hosting in the photo sharing space predates Photos/Picasa by literally decades and even in their specific form they were never without major competitors from the likes of FB/MS/Flickr/Photobucket/IG etc.

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romwell5y ago

Yeah, and which of those services you mentioned directly integrate with the camera and gallery app that ships with every other phone?

Most pictures taken today are probably taken with an Android camera. Google is, indeed, the most influential player in that sector.

kinkrtyavimoodh5y ago

Apple iCloud

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andromeduck5y ago

1. Loss leading is not dumping.

2. Plenty of competitors in the storage space are still thriving including Dropbox, Box, Microsoft OneDrive, Backblaze, Amazon Drive, Apple iCloud, etc.

3. There's even more more competition on the photo sharing side of things like Instagram, Flickr, SmugMug, 500px, imgur, imageshack, Facebook, 1x, photoblog, etc.

4. Photos isn't even the largest service nor Google the most influential player in either sector.

dredmorbius5y ago

Loss-leading to dissuade, discourage, weaken, or preempt market-based rivals is precisely dumping.

https://traderiskguaranty.com/trgpeak/history-anti-dumping-c...

Or more properly, predatory pricing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing

andromeduck5y ago

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romwell5y ago

Yeah, and which of those services you mentioned directly integrate with the camera and gallery app that ships with every other phone?

Most pictures taken today are probably taken with an Android camera. Google is, indeed, the most influential player in that sector.

kinkrtyavimoodh5y ago

Apple iCloud

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse