European report:
Recently, the term "antitrust" can be said to have become a popular vocabulary in all walks of life in various countries.
In China, anti-monopoly has rewritten the rules of the Internet game, and major platforms have opened external chains and moved towards interconnection. In South Korea, the "instant messaging + payment giant" Kakao is subject to strict anti-monopoly supervision, and its market value has plummeted. Google is also subject to Indian antitrust supervision due to abuse of Android's dominant position in India.
“Lianhe Zaobao” reported on the 19th that in a two-year investigation report, the Indian antitrust agency found that Google’s Android operating system abused its dominant market position and used its “huge financial power” Illegal harm to competitors, reducing the ability and enthusiasm of manufacturers to develop and sell devices running on other versions of Android systems, will be subject to Indian antitrust supervision.
Android system and Apple iOS system have played an important role in the global mobile phone operating system market in the past few years. Due to the ecological closed loop of the system, Apple only uses iOS operating system on its own products. Before the emergence of Hongmeng system, almost except Most electronic products other than Apple are equipped with Android systems, which allows Google to obtain a large amount of revenue and obtain an absolute dominant position in the market.
Previously, Europe, the United States, South Korea and other countries also launched antitrust investigations against Google in the payment process and smart TV market. The Korean antitrust agency also issued 180 million against Google this week. A fine of US dollars.
Internet monopoly has been suffering for a long time, what is the significance of anti-monopoly?
First of all, antitrust plays a decisive role in promoting the effective play of market competition mechanisms. Price changes are a sensitive response to changes in resource flow and demand and supply. The price also determines the reasonable organization and reasonable flow of resource allocation to a certain extent. Once Internet giants have an absolute dominant position in the market, they can freely set prices for related products. This will also squeeze the living environment of small and medium-sized enterprises, and finally form a chaotic situation of a monopoly.
second,Anti-monopoly helps promote the vitality of market entities. The market economy will eventually return to the human factor. Price monopoly allows companies to obtain excess profits, so they will not be subject to fierce market competition, and product vitality and corporate innovation will naturally decline. Only by maintaining healthy market competition, will it promote the iterative upgrade of enterprise products and stimulate the vitality of market operations.
Finally, in the current Internet market environment, some Internet giants firmly grasp the trend of public opinion and the trend of product price changes. You know, the real beneficiaries of antitrust are consumers.
Since the emergence of Hongmeng, the absolute market advantage of iOS and Android has been shaken, but to truly break the monopoly, the joint efforts of society and enterprises are required.
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