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> The AOSP browser was never competitive with Chrome That's really not true, and not how it worked. Chrome was very late to the mobile game (first released 201
by kllrnohj 6y ago
> The AOSP browser was never competitive with Chrome
That's really not true, and not how it worked. Chrome was very late to the mobile game (first released 2012, a year after Android 4.0 / ICS was released) and its first few attempts on Android sucked. It was incredibly slow & laggy when it first finally came to Android.
It's obviously not a good use of resources to make two webkit-based browsers both targeting the same market, but it was a complete swap out from one to the other over a relatively short time-frame. It's not like the mail vs. gmail situation where it was actually two "competing" apps for quite a long while.