It's not just that: it's that the hyper platform companies have been allowed to turn {build a better X} into {build a better X + rebuild their entire platform/e

It's not just that: it's that the hyper platform companies have been allowed to turn {build a better X} into {build a better X + rebuild their entire platform/ecosystem}. That's the real harm to competition, and why the Digital Markets Act is a great idea. Fuck Google et al. maintaining their market hegemonies. In order to build a better web browser, once should not also have to build a highly trafficked search engine AND a widely deployed mobile phone OS. Yet that's exactly the situation that missing monopoly enforcement has allowed to come into being...