The war between Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple
I'm genuinely unsure how I feel about this article.<p>First, the internet itself is only in danger if net neutrality is genuinely threatened by ISPs.  Until then, the network itself is as open as it ever was.<p>As for the services on top, the meta-layer of products and infrastructure we rely on--social media, content sources, smartphones and smart devices, etc--there's a lot of reason to be concerned.<p>But Amazon's marketshare is tiny compared to traditional retailers.  They're growing, sure, but they're not a monopoly yet.<p>Apple is already being beaten on many fronts, smartphones included.<p>Google is successful in a few areas (search, email, android), but they've proven incapable of pushing into other major areas (streaming services, social, etc).<p>And Facebook also has basically one core competency.<p>So, there's lots of reasons to be concerned.  But this article feels more than a little hyperbolic.<p>And as a random aside, modern theories suggest that pyramid builders were paid employees and not slaves.