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Same happens in brick and mortar stores. Im germany a drug store chain had a decade lomg partnership with an organic products / plant milk producer who did a lot to buold the market, and when the market actually got more mainstream and profitbale, they kicked them out and replaced them their new house line of organic products.

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You are right but it's the scale that is worrying.

Tech is accessible everywhere. What it does is set certain expectations for users in different countries. In india, most people won't pay for apps and they are not profitable to run many services which big companies do for free.

Maybe it's good in the short term. For consumers, certainly but I wonder if tech will become stagnated like other industries with monopolistic control.

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