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Quintopoly right now, Quadopoly if WBD gets acquired. Probably a Triopoly or Duopoly fairly soon after that.
But we have antitrust laws and everything!
Normies at this point are trained like Pavlov's dogs to ignore the very possibility to treat these big companies as they should be treated by law.
They are irrationally afraid that Earth will split in half and become infested by goblins if there's no Apple, just separate Apple Computer, Apple Mobile, Apple Music, Apple TV, Applesoft - I want to see this - and so on, no Google, just separate Google Search, Google Mobile, Googlesoft - ok, not as funny, - etc, Microsoft is a small company and there are also Microhard and Microcloud ...
Apocalypse didn't happen when AT&T was broken up. Nokia wasn't broken up by regulators, but that didn't lead to an apocalypse too, while still was a bad thing. DEC or Sun going down didn't cause apocalypse.