[clairity]

> "...just with a singular player which might just be too big to fail"

while i agree with the overall sentiment that google is pulling a microsoft, i don't see how this line is true. if google went away tomorrow, how would it lead to an economic downturn?

it would suck if you're all in on google in some way, but most of their products have competitors and substitutes, so you could switch. maybe android losing some core services that aren't immediately replaceable might cripple phones for some folks. the engineers could certainly find new jobs, and a bunch would go on to create new companies from the things they're working on now while soaking up all the idle wealth around the world looking for any return at all.

i rarely use google for anything, so maybe i'm missing the obvious.

[rebuilder]

Gmail and Drive going away tomorrow would cause a lot of trouble