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" by producing a superior and more robust alternative." In a commodity market - those with brand and distribution will win. Chrome isn't really that much bett
by alexasmyths 9y ago
" by producing a superior and more robust alternative."
In a commodity market - those with brand and distribution will win.
Chrome isn't really that much better than others. It may be in some areas, not in others.
But when the 'company that owns the web' is promoting it, they can get any number of downloads they chose to as long as the product is competitive.
And distribution is one thing, brands have incredible power - even with 'we HN readers' who should kind of know better.
- ethbro 9y ago"We've noticed you're commenting in another browser. Would you like to try commenting in Chrome?" /header
- zeroxfe 9y ago> Chrome isn't really that much better than others. The point is that it was much better than the others when it came out. It spurred the competition into actually competing. (If you remember, IE had >80% of the market at the time, and was horrendous.)
- dnautics 9y agoI don't know why this is being downvoted. I moved to chrome because ff performance was abysmal (and moved back when Chrome's v8 jit kept taking 100% cpu and locking my Linux laptop)
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- namelost 9y agoNot now, but at the time of its introduction, Chrome was significantly better than everything else. Once they added extensions at least. Chrome was the first web browser that didn't crash and didn't need to be frequently restarted. Chrome was immune to memory leaks, Flash was sandboxed, each tab was sandboxed, etc. It was a revolution.
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