Yeah, they are because of patent and copyright laws.
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And the amount of money that gets artificially directed to them.
Yes but there’s also another element. Because big tech companies are all public (or aiming to be) their stock ends up being their “product”. Which forces them to focus on delivering efficiency in shitty business models rather than innovating new products.
This is also how enshitification happens.
Oh yeah that too. More high time preference optimization for the completely wrong things.