"Since AT&T was broken up exactly 40 years ago, no company has faced the possibility of a regulator-led break-up in the United States until now."<p>Microsoft did and was ordered to split (into operating system and software divisions) until the verdict was overturned.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor...</a>.
If they actually break up apple and google, it’s going to cause so much chaos that it might actually kickstart the venture capital markets into high gear again.