>>From grumbling aside - this is a sure sign they are milking a cash cow
and not really innovating. So not a good long term investment.
That's the way of it: the closer a behemoth gets to monopoly, the less desirable innovation becomes. IMHO this has two effects: a) it requires a huge sea change to get things moving again and b) when that happens, the dinosaurs are far too slow to react and they are lost. Probably a good thing- the old know they should make way for the young but it's not always voluntary. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
