While Google has their own chips, they don't really have the market power there to buy up bleeding-edge manufacturing capacity.
Apple on the other hand... (though they're behind in other regards)
While Google has their own chips, they don't really have the market power there to buy up bleeding-edge manufacturing capacity.
Apple on the other hand... (though they're behind in other regards)
But they were just an example. They are many players arising. You can look at this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45746246 even <https://www.nextsilicon.com/> is not on that list.
I don't see a natural monopoly anymore.