[iaHN]

Regulatory capture prevents competition. Money influencing politics prevents regulation.

[freeone3000]

What regulation prohibits you from making a phone OS, even for an existing phone? Or your own android build? Or your own store on Android?

[cm2187]

Up to a certain point. No amount of money would prevent congress from toughening bank regulations after the financial crisis. I also doubt that the republicans are going to give big tech companies a pass when they come back to power.