Comment by hilbert42

"For the new ecosystem to win, it needs to have its own user base for companies building apps to recognize it."

…And strong and effective antitrust legislation in place to stop current monopolies like Google from crushing small startups.

Trouble is, despite governments paying lip service to wanting competition in this arena they really don't want competition at all, especially so from small startups.

Look at it this way, controlling and handling a few big companies is much easier for governments than having to deal with a plethora especially so when many are small startups; and second, it's also easier for them to extract user data from Big Tech's operations (as Big Tech is predictable and they've been doing so for a long time)—than it it would be from many small startups, especially so when the products they're planning to manufacture are aimed at improving privacy and adding encryption.

Think of the current UK and Apple debacle and governments' motives for not being proactive become abundantly clear.