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It’s not just their enemies. We would have been happy to continue being a customer of Google if they hadn’t massively jacked up prices with little notice when they recognized their monopoly advantage in maps. So now we’re happy to be on board the anti-trust train.

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They do not have a monopoly in Maps.

Say what it is, you built your platform using google, and they changed prices.

Yeah what is it with people throwing "monopoly" at everything? Just because they're an industry leader doesn't mean they're anything close to a monopoly.

Being a monopoly justifies action, hence people who want action against popular companies will try to rationalize it being a monopoly as a premise for their disdain.

This monopoly/monopsony misclassification is seemingly a bi-weekly occurrence on HN with regards to FAANG companies. Don't get me wrong, there are reasons to criticize these tech companies, but calling them monopolies in markets they are not is not the right way to do it.

Antitrust law does not require a monopoly, nor is a monopoly a violation of antitrust law.

The two are strongly correlated but they're not the same.

Oh for sure. Antitrust law is very nuanced, even by geography (e.g. US requires market dominance, EU does not) but GP claimed monopoly in maps, which is more to the point of miss-attribution.

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