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Google Docs and Chrome represent nothing significant in the marketplace right now relative to IE and MS Office, yet I have no doubt that Microsoft considers the
by sutro 18y ago
Google Docs and Chrome represent nothing significant in the marketplace right now relative to IE and MS Office, yet I have no doubt that Microsoft considers these offerings to be serious threats. Analogously, Adblock Plus and CustomizeGoogle, both aimed directly at Google's primary revenue streams, are no doubt taken very seriously at the Googleplex, regardless of how low their usage currently is.
- ashu 18y agoDo you have any evidence to support your assertion(s)? How can you be so completely sure of what is going on strategically inside large organizations like Microsoft or Google?
- sutro 18y agoJust think about it. This is the same market dynamic that has been eroding the revenues of TV broadcasters ever since Tivo provided an easy mechanism for skipping ads. Don't you think that if most web surfers were given easy options for turning off web ads and/or making themselves more anonymous online, they would take advantage of it? The two hurdles to users doing this currently are: 1) installing Firefox, 2) installing the right addons. Granted those hurdles are still too high for a large percentage of web surfers, but I believe that if the Google-Firefox alliance breaks down over Chrome, that second hurdle will eventually go away, because it makes sense from a user experience perspective to bundle those options with the browser. And no, I have no evidence or special insight into what high-level strategic discussions are taking place at Google or Microsoft. I'm just going out on a limb and guessing that those discussions are not about Webkit.