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The only true monopoly Google holds is search. They have a lot of successful products in other venues but nothing that reaches 90%+ market penetration. The only
by shouldbworking 9y ago
The only true monopoly Google holds is search. They have a lot of successful products in other venues but nothing that reaches 90%+ market penetration. The only other thing that's close is chrome browser.
Chrome is already starting to get some "google only" features...Like hangouts and Chromecast support. If any of these become a necessity to browse regular sites it will be a defacto monopoly on the web browser market.
Random thought, but one reason I don't like Angular is because it "shapes" your site exactly how google wants it. Much like AMP, this just makes it easy for Google to "borrow" your content for other purposes.
- ghaff 9y agoChrome actually has higher desktop marketshare than I would have thought, about 60%. [1] But that's still pretty far from a monopoly. [1] https://arstechnica.com/business/2016/05/firefox-overtakes-microsoft-internet-explorer-edge-browsers-first-time-statcounter/ https://arstechnica.com/business/2016/05/firefox-overtakes-m...
- shouldbworking 9y agoConsider the mobile market as well, it outnumbers desktop these days
- ghaff 9y agoChrome seems to be in about the same range on mobile though, about 50%.