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It was quite a bit different then. IE was in the "first mover" batch. Chrome is the "last mover". It was easy to knock out the first mover as things had stalled
by ngokevin 8y ago
It was quite a bit different then. IE was in the "first mover" batch. Chrome is the "last mover". It was easy to knock out the first mover as things had stalled yet there was still lots of innovation to be done. But browsers have since commoditized, and the door for differentiation has closed. Especially as browsers inherently need to match each other through web standards. I don't see a way for 2D browsers to rise up against Chrome. Firefox, after hundreds of millions of dollars over the last several years, hasn't made radical changes.
Personally, I'm chasing VR and AR to be the new wave of the Web, where browsing experience will be heavily differentiated.
- kristopolous 8y agoNetscape Navigator had substantially beat IE as a first-mover in the market and the mind. IE wasn't a first-mover, it was bundled with the computer, it won as the most available, just like Starbucks vs. Coffee Bean - later comers can be assumed as more readily available then their perceived equivalencies. Firefox broke through by shattering the consumer's perception of equivalence. The door for differentiation in the same way as before has closed, but not for differentiation in other ways that people immediately perceive. Lacking a prescriptive direction that Mozilla Inc should take to establish this doesn't invalidate the observation, you can describe an illness without knowing the cure.