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That 0.1% doesn't take into account hours spent using the actual app. Power users tend to spend all day in a browser whereas a typical grandma might look at it

by 0x54D5 8y ago

That 0.1% doesn't take into account hours spent using the actual app. Power users tend to spend all day in a browser whereas a typical grandma might look at it for 15 minutes and close it. Meanwhile people who have multiple Google accounts and who spend literally all day in the browser are the ones that get the short end of the stick? That makes zero sense and it's why people are starting to hate Google just like any other corporation that makes decisions by committee. There should have been a product owner on the browser team that said "No this is a browser. Not an extension of GSuite." The total indifference to people's valid use cases is what really grinds my gears. Chrome is still the only browser that ruins my UX by putting a profile picker into the title bar. A place it has no business being. I literally made a patch and compiled my own version of Chromium for a while to get rid of it. https://github.com/hparadiz/chromium-disable-profile-button-patch https://github.com/hparadiz/chromium-disable-profile-button-... I'm so tired of the arrogance. Chrome used to be a beautiful simplistic browser. Now it's just bloat. I'm done. Get off my computer. You guys had your chance and blew it.

zbentley 8y ago
If all the power users leave, the app makers do not care. If all the typical grandmas leave, their margins are significantly impacted. You can figure out the rest. That’s not a problem or an indictment. Just an observation of how systems work st scale.
- TheKarateKid 8y ago
  How do you think Firefox and Chrome overthrew IE? The power users (us) who set up and fix everyone else's computers spent years telling others why IE is terrible and installed a different browser, and it slowly but surely worked (along with strong developer and media/press support).
- snaky 8y ago
  That's very short term focused observation though. Power users are influencers. When power users leave - especially being annoyed and angry - they start to actively advise against the product left and right, to the regular users and to other power users.
  - TeMPOraL 8y ago
    But that's unfortunately how this works. I think people forget market players can, and are, self-destructive, when short-term profits interfere with long-term survival. It's also part of the reason for the pace of the industry. You pump out as much money as you can from some space, and then move on to focus on the next thing.

by 0x54D5 8y ago

zbentley 8y ago

If all the power users leave, the app makers do not care. If all the typical grandmas leave, their margins are significantly impacted. You can figure out the rest. That’s not a problem or an indictment. Just an observation of how systems work st scale.

TheKarateKid 8y ago
How do you think Firefox and Chrome overthrew IE? The power users (us) who set up and fix everyone else's computers spent years telling others why IE is terrible and installed a different browser, and it slowly but surely worked (along with strong developer and media/press support).
snaky 8y ago
That's very short term focused observation though. Power users are influencers. When power users leave - especially being annoyed and angry - they start to actively advise against the product left and right, to the regular users and to other power users.
- TeMPOraL 8y ago
  But that's unfortunately how this works. I think people forget market players can, and are, self-destructive, when short-term profits interfere with long-term survival. It's also part of the reason for the pace of the industry. You pump out as much money as you can from some space, and then move on to focus on the next thing.