Weiteres Update von Idas, allerdings zum Apple Lawsuit, was indirekt auch MS betrifft:
Yesterday,
Apple won its appeal against the CMA's decision to launch an investigation into its mobile browser and cloud gaming services.
The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) ruled that the CMA "erred in law" when it decided to open the market investigation with a delay of almost 6 months.
Apple Inc won its appeal against the decision by Britain's antitrust regulator to launch an investigation into its mobile browser and cloud gaming services, the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) ruled on Friday.
www.reuters.com
The CMA wants to appeal the decision, but I think that Apple is going to win this one. This is going to postpone the investigation (and possible remedies) on cloud gaming through the App Store for months or probably years.
Surprisingly, this could help MS in this case. Microsoft argues that one of the RCB (relevant customer benefits) of the deal is that they would create a new mobile game distribution platform (with all the new mobile content acquired) that would benefit consumers and developers.
The logical counter-argument from the CMA should have been that they were already working on it (making the mobile market more competitive) through the market investigation.
But now, any actions from the CMA on the mobile market could get delayed for months or maybe even years. Therefore, the new mobile game platform promised by MS if the deal goes through could gain more weight as a relevant customer benefit.
"aba aba aba gegen CMA kann man nichts machen und das Tribunal bringt nichts"