Tech monopolies tend not to fall like Rome. They fall like Venice. They’re still there, and no-one actually invades them, but the trade routes moved, the things that gave them power and wealth stop mattering, and they become just another city, and then a backwater.
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It's possible that Facebook/Google with eventually be upended due to Venice/trade routes type shifts, but unlikely anytime soon (imagine IBM being allowed to buy up everyone else the way Facebook/Google/Apple do). The strongest examples took decades to slowly shift in importance.
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Apple has never made an acquisition that changed its market power. Even NeXT and PA Semi can't be so described. IBM bought Lotus and many other things. And the shifts to the web and then mobile happened very quickly.
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