Comment by oliwarner

You could make all these arguments against Android, no? Perhaps moreso while they maintain the garden wall.

It isn't wrong to point out how harmful to society monopolies are, and to identify them, but the development of Chrome, Android, etc, do also present genuine value to anybody who wants that code.

Without Google making money from the search/targeting/advertising model, who is paying for Chrome, Firefox and Google Search? Who is paying for Android after third party marketplaces take off?

I'm not making any recommendations here except that I think we need to be careful what we wish for. Tools we rely on might evaporate.