Tech Giants' Decline

Hasn't "most won't make it or will be acquired by big tech" been the story for the last 50 years?

You mean like Google and Microsoft? They won’t be around when it completes?

It seems like every tech company eventually reaches a similar fate of fading into irrelevance as more innovative competitors emerge (e.g. DEC, BlackBerry, Yahoo). Will today's tech giants suffer the same fate? If so, how soon?

Let's wait a few years. Bloat will kill these companies. It's inevitable.

What you're describing would seem to be a borderline miraculously positive thing. Every single generation of tech companies starts off absolutely amazing. Then they get big, and in surprisingly rapid order enter into the abyss from which they never returnBut in modern times the particularly level level of big, scaling back of anti-competitive law enforcement, and a government increasingly obsessed with making [economic] number go up, regardless of the cost, have all created a situation w

Just wait until all these new companies get acquired by American big tech

They wouldn't be the first high power and highly profitable tech company to fade away...

Also 40s hacker/entrepreneur here. Your complaint is like a 40-year old in the 90s complaining that IBM, Microsoft, Intel and the like have locked up most of the future potential of computing.The internet titans of today will be replaced or be forced to change as the next wave of innovation takes over.There may be a lull right now, but either AI or augmented reality looks like a good candidate for the next cycle.

"The internet is pretty fickle though. I still remember when people switched from Altavista to Google and from MySpace to Facebook. It didn't take all that long and look at those old companies now."Past performance is no guarantee for the future. We zillions of PC manufacturers before we got the likes of HP and Dell, and twenty years later, we still have them. On the desktop OS/application front, the same happened with Microsoft becoming the main player.The commo

The thing is no single company can survive forever. Soon or later big companies have to be broken up to survive. I'd imagine in the future Google and Apple will face the same problem that MS and Blackberry are facing. Their products are now commonly seen and used don't really mean their business can go well forever. Without attractions (from both users and news reporters), new competitors can sell similar products in more compelling ways and then steal the market.