Too bad. Entrepreneurs serve the customers. If you won't build it, we won't go. We shall simply patronize other businesses.
> at the onset of the mobile wars which were fought and won by companies already founded at the time of the lawsuit
Microsoft was already stumbling in the Ballmer years long before mobile - they failed to capitalize on the internet itself, they couldn't build a compelling search engine, for starters. They couldn't even get the Zune to be a lasting brand. None of this is due to antitrust, but to their own organizational dysfunctions and inability to execute.
> I remember when there were dozens of compiler, word-processor, spreadsheet, OS and microcomputer companies competing in the 80s and 90s.
Ah yes, the demise of BeOS and OS/2 was caused by government regulation, and not Wintel dominance.