>I think it must be a kind of technological "too big to fail".
Microsoft was still big even back then, and yet they got regulated. Bell/AT&T was also a giant monopoly and it also got broken up. It seems that size wasn't the problem.
Not enough. They tried to make them separated their Office software business from the OS business, but failed sadly. Not to mentioned all the problems with them making unsupportable office files formats.
The lack of will to regulate seems to scale with industry lobbing.
I used to hope we consumers would stop reelecting corruption. We never did and now we're too busy trying to keep even worse people getting into office.
Microsoft was still big even back then, and yet they got regulated. Bell/AT&T was also a giant monopoly and it also got broken up. It seems that size wasn't the problem.