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This is the same rant one said about windows many years ago, one should not bloat and add more and more features. The answer is still the same, things need to e

This is the same rant one said about windows many years ago, one should not bloat and add more and more features. The answer is still the same, things need to evolve if it gives meaning and give improved user experience and value. It is only natural to bundle more and more functionality in a product. Many years ago IE 6 won the browser war and was set in maintenance mode for many years, but no progress made it easy for someone else to take over. First Firefox and then later Chrome. I think the Chrome team have learned their lessons and will continue to improve the product and make everyone else follow as long as there is user demand for the features and it gives strategic sense for Google.

kasabali 6y ago
> I think the Chrome team have learned their lessons and will continue to improve the product There's a fine line between improvement and churn
boomlinde 6y ago
> The answer is still the same, things need to evolve if it gives meaning and give improved user experience and value. I don't think critics disagree with this notion. Rather they disagree that the bloat gives meaning/improved user experience/value. It admits the existence of incompetence and perverse incentives. The latter seems like a natural consequence of profit-driven development when user satisfaction is only loosely and partially tied to profit.
sthnblllII 6y ago
“The Chrome team” hasn’t just made ‘mistakes’. The problem is that Google’s whole reason for making its own browser in the first place was to entrench the web features it uses to track you and veto any efforts to replace them. Engineers are not the ones making these decisions.