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Yeah, GP is forgetting what the browser landscape looked like in 2008. IE was awful, and Firefox was…perfectly cromulent. Chrome was so much better than any of
by warning26 3y ago
Yeah, GP is forgetting what the browser landscape looked like in 2008.
IE was awful, and Firefox was…perfectly cromulent. Chrome was so much better than any of the competition.
- exceptione 3y agoAverage joe did not do research. Forget it. - They found the internet had gotten a new icon and had no idea how it got there. (bundling with popular software) - They were instructed by google. That is how chrome came to top. See other comments for more context.
- warning26 3y agoI mean, what would you expect? The fact is, browsers aren't a product, they're a platform feature. Users have zero incentive to ever switch from whatever their OS came bundled with, unless you make a massive advertising push. The fact that Google managed to get people to switch to a non-platform browser at all is a shocking achievement.
- olyjohn 3y agoDone by tricking people, and sneakily bundling itself with everything. Sleezey, scumbag achievement.
- warning26 3y agoI agree that some of their tactics were questionable, but they were up against IE, and Microsoft's bundling of it. Would you rather everyone still be using IE? Because that's exactly what would have happened otherwise.