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The calculus changes when you’re being fined tens of billions of dollars that will be used to develop a competitor to your core product.

It’s not (X/2), it’s (X/2) - (NPV of future profits from giving X/2 to develop competition).

Your model would work for just an adaptation to a compliant product, but not to the proposed “just seize 4% of their global revenue and use that to fund a competitor” model that I was replying to.




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