Plenty of people will read all this as a triumph of free-market economics: the old overtaken by the new, the public good served by an eager private sector, and creative destruction writ large.

• 很多人会将此解读成自由市场经济的号角，老公司被新公司取代，公共产品由积极的私人公司提供，大公司被创造性的小公司打败。