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The technology is secondary. Firefox, Safari, and Opera are horrible brands that non-technical people hate. For many people IE == internet, and the only brand i
by maxwell 18y ago
The technology is secondary. Firefox, Safari, and Opera are horrible brands that non-technical people hate. For many people IE == internet, and the only brand in the world that can compete is Google. They "abandoned" Firefox so that our parents will abandon IE.
- neilc 18y agoFirefox, Safari, and Opera are horrible brands that non-technical people hate. Um, really? Most of my friends who use Firefox quite like it. Those who use Macs use Safari, for the most part. Basically no one has heard of Opera. But I don't know of a single non-technical user who "hates" any of those brands. For many people IE == internet I think you give far too little credit to most Internet users. Even among older users, the vast majority are aware of the difference between a client application and a website.
- maxwell 18y agoI think you give far too little credit to most Internet users. Even among older users, the vast majority are aware of the difference between a client application and a website. That was equality, not identity! It's a terminology thing. Yes, they know the difference between the internet and their browser certainly, but I know people who more or less refer to IE as "the internet." It's part of the name, after all. I think they generally call the net itself either "the web" or "online." Obviously I'm pulling from a small data set, but nonetheless, IE does give the impression on the outside that it's the authoritative browser, much as Google's homepage does for search.