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And the company's fortunes did not rest on the product being successful.

• pessimizer 4y ago
  Seeing as it's money-losing (like virtually all of non-ad google), it wouldn't have helped anyway. The only value to Chrome for Google is the monopolistic market-distortion through vertical integration.
  • alisonkisk 4y ago
  • satyrnein 4y ago
    At time it was a defense against Microsoft embrace-extend-extinguishing the web through their dominance with IE. Remember ActiveX, VBscript in the browser, etc?
    • cmrdporcupine 4y ago
      The threat of that had already been greatly reduced by the time Chrome came out. Firefox was quite dominant, and IE had become much more standards compliant.
      • satyrnein 4y ago
        I just checked and seems like IE was down to around 60% and Firefox up to a third when Chrome launched (not sure how long before that the project was greenlight). So it probably still played a role.
        • cmrdporcupine 4y ago
          yeah but the demon of IE6 was pretty much done