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You believe the (very public) inquiries had no effect on the market?
by zdkl 5y ago
You believe the (very public) inquiries had no effect on the market?
- philjohn 5y agoI don't - I think a better product came along, one that was aggressively pushed by the dominant search engine that swathes of the internet used each day (which is not in and of itself a good thing either, FWIW).
- bergie 5y agoMicrosoft couldn’t employ their standard anticompetitive playbook on Chrome due to the antitrust process. So that gave it a chance to become viable.
- LadyCailin 5y agoMaybe you’re right in this case, but I find it impossible to believe that apple would allow third party apps ever, if not for regulatory intervention. Given that the existence of Android has not caused that to happen naturally yet, there’s basically no other chance that any other market player would be able to reasonably upset that. Same with google search, Bing and Baidu have a laughably small market share in search, despite both being multibillion dollar companies behind them. And forget small players like DDG or Pinephone, they don’t even register on the charts. So yeah, market regulation is necessary here, I’d rather roll back useless regulation later than continue with the status quo.
- emteycz 5y agoI don't remember any public inquires having any kind of effect. I remember Chrome being much better and people switching because of that.