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Big things start small. Take your comments and s/Brave/Phoenix/ in 2002 into 2003. You were right at the time, wrong within another year. Could Brave fail? Of
by BrendanEich 10y ago
Big things start small. Take your comments and s/Brave/Phoenix/ in 2002 into 2003. You were right at the time, wrong within another year.
Could Brave fail? Of course. Has it? Not yet, we're pre-1.0 still. We are growing and we've started ramping toward 1.0 since mobile browsers are post-1.0 by store version rules, and growing even faster. We have bugs to fix before 1.0 and the push to take laptop/desktop share.
The way to think about Brave or any early-stage effort against incumbents is not short-term static analysis. Markets leave equilibrium, macro trends as well as errors force out players. Incumbents do fall. Study how they fall, look for their weaknesses -- especially their essential business conflicts of interest.
Those business weaknesses can be attacked more vigorously, and over longer timescales, than any particular technological weakness.