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Google has not only become dominant because their product is good. First and foremost, they leveraged their market power through android and their search engine
by CptCrunch 6y ago
Google has not only become dominant because their product is good.
First and foremost, they leveraged their market power through android and their search engine to get people to use chrome.
- mav3rick 6y agoLol ? You do know Android was nascent when Chrome became dominant.
- buttersbrian 6y agoAs another said -- chrome was dominant before Android was a player. Firefox blew a hole in the IE wall. Then chrome came along and was more acid compliant, leaner (Ux/ui), faster, and it's approach of per-tab processes was superior to a lock-up prone Firefox, or IE.
- marcosdumay 6y agoFirefox required admin rights to install on Windows, what locked most of the user base out of its reach. Chrome got his market by silently installing as the IE rendering engine, and by being bundled with other software.
- buttersbrian 6y agoI don't think there was anything silent, IMO. The other biggest factor IMO Chrome greatly focusing on developer tools --> eventually stealing away firebug dev, and in turn taking the throne as the developer browser of choice.
- marcosdumay 6y agoChrome was already very popular by the time it became any good (compared to Firefox). But even sooner than they investing in dev-tools, they made a killing from tab isolation right at a time when Firefox had most of its stability problems.