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I like how the Google products I use work together and worry that a broken up Google would worsen my user experience.

Also, if you cut off things like youtube and maps, I'm pretty sure they would collapse in bankruptcy as they are almost certainly not net profitable by themselves.

Do we want company's to dominate an industry because they are pumping in money from their domination in another industry? A unprofitable business is a failure and should be replaced by other firms with better business models

It's almost as if antitrust is pro-competition and pro-capitalism!

> pro-competition and pro-capitalism

Surely those two are incompatible.

Capitalism is the principle that you need capital to pay for things. If you have more capital than a competitor, you can sustain losses for longer, until your competitor runs out of capital to pay for things like food and has to stop competing.

The principle of capitalism leads to competition, but it's necessarily only temporary. Eventually, capitalism inevitably leads to lack of competition.

If they do their job after being broken up, they'll make sure integrations with other services are tight enough this won't be a problem.

They won't.

Fortunately, the market will provide as there is an entire industry of platform integrators from MuleSoft to IFTTT.

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