It seems to me that what we're seeing is the slow consolidation of technology into a few dozen monopolies: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, now Facebook.<p>These monopolies allow other small business to exist at their pleasure in sort of a symbiotic relationship. Sometimes there are clear guidelines, but mostly there's a lot of room for interpretation and fudging. People push the limits, then every now and then the Lord of the Fiefdom takes a few out and shoots them (economically, of course) for misbehavior.<p>If we had this same situation in real life it would be obvious that there is a problem going on. But somehow because it's all digital it seems to be okay. For now.<p>It will be very interesting to see how this all plays out over the next couple of decades.