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Chrome's monopoly is going to be worse than the IE days. Microsoft was more negligent than intentional. Google has been waiting for the day for a decade. Look
by throwaway189262 6y ago
Chrome's monopoly is going to be worse than the IE days. Microsoft was more negligent than intentional. Google has been waiting for the day for a decade.
Look at what happened to Android. Google play services started out innocent, now it's half the OS. And "safety net", like the "patriot" act, is the nail in the coffin.
Buckle in bois for some good old fashioned monopoly fun
- dimator 6y agoI thought Play Services was designed to house more and more of the OS, so that Google could get back some control over updates, instead of letting device manufacturers never update their Android versions.
- throwaway189262 6y agoIt's also conveniently not open source
- rahkiin 6y agoAnd not available when sideloading
- nuker 6y agoYeah, rename IETF to GETF (Google Engineering Task Force). The only thing that prevents total domination today is iOS with its WebKit only policy.
- rahkiin 6y agoMight that be one of the reasons Apple keeps that strict rule? Other than the disallowing of W+X of course.
- 0xdeadb00f 6y agoFor once I actually hope apple keeps up with that policy just to spite google
- needle0 6y agoIt's quite ironic when one company's anti-competitive behavior paradoxically results in them preventing another company from achieving total monoculture domination.
- nuker 6y ago> .. company's anti-competitive behavior .. I'm an Apple user and I paid premium specifically for this "anti-competitive behavior". I'm totally behind its policies. I feel protected from malware, scams and privacy leaks. Developers may complain all they want, not my problem.
- fomine3 6y agoSeriously this. Ironically Apple defends us from monopoly, maybe accidentally.
- senectus1 6y agoworse because : 1) its competent at doing its job 2) google dont care too much about their products once they release them.
- pjmlp 6y agoChromeOS has won, expect ads for Web development to eventually turn into Chrome developer.
- devwastaken 6y agoChromium won the tech war, and V8 won the Js war. The only way to compete with chromium now would be to put webkit onto windows, but even then webkit is just duplicating the standards.