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It's a coin-flip. Google could just decide to pull the deal if consumers end up using AI more than search engines. AI is the next warfront for Google. The brow
by hammyhavoc 4y ago
It's a coin-flip. Google could just decide to pull the deal if consumers end up using AI more than search engines. AI is the next warfront for Google.
The browser war isn't going to be won by Mozilla at this point. It's been and gone. Most consumers live in non-browser apps most of the time.
- kjkjadksj 4y agoSure, most consumers have marched off desktop os entirely to walled garden mobile apps. That probably also means whats left of the desktop browser users are perhaps more likely to be firefox users than beforehand when it was more of a mass market.
- hammyhavoc 4y agoWhy are they more likely? The browser statistics paint a completely different picture about Firefox usage.
- kjkjadksj 4y agoI’d imagine firefox usage is enriched among techies who are enriched among desktop os users, increasingly so as aunt sally moves to the ipad.
- hammyhavoc 4y agoYour imagination aside, the statistics show a decline in Firefox numbers, and it has a woefully small marketshare (~4% across all devices). It's been declining for 12 years. They lost ~50m users in ~3y. "Techies" have or are moving on because Mozilla's pace of development is woeful, and compatibility is poor. Killing the RSS reader was the final straw for many. Disney advertising in-browser was another major moment.