Search, Android, Youtube, Gmail, Chrome and Gdrive are all rife for disruption but either Google will preemptively buy the companies, play monopolistic games li

Search, Android, Youtube, Gmail, Chrome and Gdrive are all rife for disruption but either Google will preemptively buy the companies, play monopolistic games like they do with Android [1], or the time and resources required to gain users and traction will bankrupt most alternatives. Without competition you get inferior products, service and markets. It's difficult to argue otherwise as you have no frame of comparison for things that haven't happened and you can't make any claims of quality without competition. Worse the ad economy has incentivized very poor quality content. This is where free markets and market theory fails as this can't be fixed without regulatory intervention or someone with extremely deep pockets willing to lose large sums of money. The ad economy has tremendous negative externalities, surveillance, creating incentives for low quality content, click bait, personalized political advertising and people incentivized to produce more and more extremist and divisive content. All this so Google and others can make more money. This seems like a bad deal for the rest of us, akin to polluting the environment for personal benefit. [1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on...