Rating The Options (I)

• "Horizontal" OS/Apps./Content Divestiture

  • Eliminates ability of divested OS entity to leverage monopoly power
  • Reduces long-term gov’t oversight, but initial line-drawing required
  • Maintains OS monopoly (pricing) power
  • Prevents realization of any scope economies from OS product integration
  • Absent reintegration ban (transitional?), potential risk of recreating current competitive problems
    

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