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If you remember the "good old days" of Microsoft, Internet Explorer monopoly only when they were forced out of being default and had to actively ask the users w
by levosmetalo 6y ago
If you remember the "good old days" of Microsoft, Internet Explorer monopoly only when they were forced out of being default and had to actively ask the users which browser they want and make the users' effort equal for every choice.
Power of defaults is just too massive to be ignored. And default is always easier than any "easy way of changing".
- izacus 6y agoI also remember how that did nothing to beat IE until someone actually built a better browser - Mozilla/Firebird/Firefox and later Chrome.
- runarberg 6y agoShould that matter? If you do monopoly while having a better product you should still be charge with monopoly. That is you should be forced to gain market share fairly even if your product is better then the competition.
- sb52191 6y agoDepends on the country. In the US (as I understand it) a key component to being charge with a monopoly is you have to show that consumers/users are negatively impacted. Philosophically I don't know whether or not I agree that's best, but it's the way it is currently.
- chupasaurus 6y agoI also remember Google's marketing campaign to shove Chrome in installers for Windows.
- izacus 6y agoYep, when fighting against the browser that's baked into the operating system. Then again, Edge now happily sets itself as default browser (and "fixes" default search engine selection) every few weeks on my W10 machine so nothing much has changed in this fight.
- UncleMeat 6y agoDDG doesn't even want an even system. They complained that the auction was too expensive for them.