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Frankly I couldn't have put it better myself. Even voting with your feet doesn't work because the platform just moves on without you.
by neilalexander 3y ago
Frankly I couldn't have put it better myself. Even voting with your feet doesn't work because the platform just moves on without you.
- GoblinSlayer 3y agoYep, Microsoft did just that. Moved on.
- shadowgovt 3y agoMSFT may have lost their web edge (and I'd argue that had more to do with Google legitimately out-maneuvering them by starting over on a new browser design from scratch than anything MSFT did), but in a sense they did "move on." Their stock value in the '90s when they got regulated was around $37; it's around $340 now. They pivoted to cloud services and their server products still do robust business.
- gigel82 3y agoNot really "from scratch" though, Blink is a fork of WebKit. Sure, it's taken its own path since forking, but it's damn near impossible to start a browser from scratch these days (which is why ladybird is so impressive).