Albergotti: Tech monopolies like Apple are disrupted by new technology, not antitrust
Reed Albergotti · Gruber Slams Apple's Siri Failure, Tech Stocks In Freefall, Vibecoding & OpenAI's Agents · Mar 14, 2025 · at 14:36
Reid Albergatti reflects on reporting on antitrust enforcement and argues that technological disruption driven by basic research is what truly disrupts tech monopolies.
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“This, and I had this thought at the time, like, this is never going to disrupt Apple. What's going to disrupt them is new technology. That's how you know, create sort of creative destruction, disruption, and it's sort of why, like, to bring it to, like, what's going on today you know, in Washington, it's like, why, when, you know, you start defunding basic research, that's the stuff that ultimately, those are the seeds, you To use the Apple metaphor that eventually lead to, you know, this new technology that forces companies to either innovate or, you know, or sort of die on the vine.”
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