[vaxman]

The major companies in Silicon Valley are already facing legislative scrutiny right now (Tim Apple testified in front of Congress a couple weeks ago and looked shocked at the revelations being thrown at him —I am guessing he will be firing a whole lot of people who must have known about that stuff, but forgot to mention it during their briefings). In addition, there are publicly announced anti-trust investigations underway by the Exexutive branch in US, EU, Russia and beyond. Sure there will be fines for past deeds, but they can shut it all down by allowing users to shop at any app store they want.