Absolutely not sure why these world beaters hacking everything under Sun need to be bailed out by some stodgy old institution anyway.
- Repackaging an existing codebase or business model
- ... as a black box
- ... attempting to rent it out
- ... with worse data privacy
- ... exploiting systemic economic excesses
- ... ... inflicting societal harm
- ... ... often with minimal upside to the consumer short-term
- ... ... or long-term
- ... colluding with large existing players
- ... ... to create a treadmill of declining product quality
- ... ... to facilitate government surveillance and information operations
- ... ... to "play defense" against competitors
It's kind of like how OOP was intended to stratify and contain developers, except instead of abstracting commodity PCs there's a whole different calculus which basically implies that the ultimate consumer of computing equipment is like, 2 or 3 big companies, because financing. You know how the old democratic saying goes, "none of us is as strong as the 2-3 permanent CEOs of reality."