When AT&T ran things, they owned everything connected to the phone network. You leased your phone - you couldn't purchase it. When the telephone answering machine was invented, you weren't allowed to hook it up because it wasn't an AT&T device.

Things are different now. We kind of own our phones, and we kind of have a choice of what goes on them, but who really controls them?

The sky is falling because of monopoly? What does that have to do with the juicer? People invested in bad ideas before this age of monopolies that the author is worried about, so I'm not buying the "nothing but scraps" argument.

I'm not saying I disagree that tech companies should be brought up on anti trust charges, and in some cases broken up. But the author's arguments don't make any sense to me.

" ...it [Google] buys a company a week at this point. "

Y Combinator funds +/- 4 companies a week. Seems pretty symbiotic from my view.