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There are no companies that are the “Google” of 20 years ago. Apple comes close in some ways, but it’s not a “young” version of Google, obviously.

Google is the internet, and most of its ads. Apple more or less is consumer tech. That is to say, they are the market makers and they decide what these market’s “truth” is.

There aren’t that many companies with that much leverage over that big of a market.



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