Can a cartel happen in the Computer or information technology sector?

Answer 1

simply put yes. at the moment you have 2 main home computing competitors, both have stifled competition over the years by buying out any smaller companies that have begun to make in roads into the home computing market; if you look around there are many interesting stories of extremely hostile approaches made by both these 2 companies towards smaller concerns. whether price fixing has occured in collusion is open to debate, but, price is determined by and large by the capacity to manufacture and deliver, so, the more you can make the less unique and often prices fall; prices in terms of manufacturing etc, reason being often price is effected by manufacturing process, if you have 1 dye cast to cut (all identical) but millions of them it is much cheaper than having millions to cut all different. and if you have millions to cut full stop it is cheaper than having 10's to cut. smaller companies have to be unique and different, often their manufacturing costs are much higher because their runs are much smaller and differ vastly.