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> forcing inferior browser on iOS users is better than Chrome winning on merits? It's really dubious to say the chrome has or would win on merits alone, and no
by Phrodo_00 4y ago
> forcing inferior browser on iOS users is better than Chrome winning on merits?
It's really dubious to say the chrome has or would win on merits alone, and not through a monopolistic advertisement push.
- themacguffinman 4y agoMicrosoft knows from painful experience that monopolistic advertisement pushes don't magically win the browser wars. And they really did try. For an entrepreneurial forum, it's pretty incredible how frequently magical mind control powers are attributed to marketing/advertising. Anyone who has ever made a real product knows that advertising is not enough, it only works in the long term if your product is actually good and worth using. By this logic, every Google product should automatically win. All they have to do is slap an ad on their homepage and sponsor some installation partnership deals and boom, nothing can stop Google.
- AlexandrB 4y agoSo far, only Facebook (G+) or Apple (Android) has stopped Google. They've spent the last few years successfully killing travel websites and shopping websites. Unless you have the resources and customer lock-in of a Facebook or Apple, you're probably doomed if Google looks your way.
- lern_too_spel 4y agoNonsense. If the user need can't be satisfied in a search page result, Google is completely impotent. Slack, Zoom, WhatsApp, Stripe, etc. all prove this out.
- rhinoceraptor 4y agoThey're still trying pretty hard, about one out of five times I try to launch something from the start menu, the search results don't find it or are too slow, and it launches Edge to search for "Fusion 360" or whatever I was trying to open, using Bing.
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