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Originally Posted by kane
I would argue that the theaters do compete against TV and Cable and DVDs. There are right now a certain group of movies in the theater, however there are plenty of other movies on cable, DVD etc. If you want to see a movie you have options.
As per your example here, the different mediums compete with each other. The movie in the theater is Nike. The movie on HBO is Sketchers and the movie on DVD is Carhart. They are all shoes, just different kinds of shoes. If I want Carhart shoes, my local store does not carry them, I need to drive about 15 miles to a different store and buy them there. that is no different than the movies. This Friday if I want to see Thor I will have to go to theater to see it, but if I want to watch Spiderman I can rent it, maybe I can find it on-demand or it might even be playing on HBO. One thing is for sure, if I want to see Spiderman I can't see it in a theater I must go somewhere else for it so the theater is going to lose my business. Likewise if the theater has no movies playing that I want to see. They lose my business to their competition.
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except there are dozens of different shoes
your doing your catagory is equal to product bullshit arguement again
your fabricating competition to justify monopoly prices
by your standard nike should be granted the exclusive right to make running shoes. If you want to buy running shoes you need to buy them from nike. But that ok because you can buy flip flops from another manufacturer.
when you define competition by catagory nothing is ever a monopoly
microsoft can do whatever they want since OS exist on phones too.