[matthew1471]

I suspect these things will go in waves.. For a while we’ll embrace big tech.. then we’ll hear of aspirations to create a privacy revolution or run our own mail servers and jump on the next big thing.

Case in point Facebook.. it’s still huge but there are plenty of people that have decided they just don’t want a Facebook account anymore and Facebook’s own growth is floundering. Users are fairly fickle, WordPerfect to Microsoft Word, Flickr to Instagram, Instagram to TikTok.. A lot of employers even deliberately default to Bing instead of Google these days.

Look at the dominance Microsoft used to have with the Windows ecosystem, a significant number of people just want a web-browser and couldn’t even tell you what OS they were using.

I don’t think the concern is misplaced, profit driven companies will always strive for vendor lock in and monopolisation if given a choice but nobody is producing tech that someone else can’t.