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I guess you have no idea how much money it costs to develop something like Chrome, especially at Google's salary.
by o1y32 3y ago
I guess you have no idea how much money it costs to develop something like Chrome, especially at Google's salary.
- pocketarc 3y agoGoogle currently plays Apple billions ($15B supposedly) to be the default search engine on Safari, and another half a billion a year for Firefox. For Chrome, with their gigantic market share, they'd pay billions (just like they pay Apple). Browsers are complicated, but let's not pretend that that kind of money wouldn't be enough.
- edgyquant 3y agoI’m not sure what you mean. Google would continue to pay chrome to advertise?
- andsoitis 3y agoThey’re saying: Google (the search company) would pay ChromeCorp (company behind Chrome/Chromium) big money to be the default search engine in the browser. Google already pays both Mozilla and Apple in this way. Theoretically this money should be enough to finance the continued investment in Chrome.
- bee_rider 3y agoIt might be nice to have less web browser development, fewer engineers who need to add a new feature to get a bullet point for their review. Rendering a website should not be a huge project. Websites are a medium for transmitting ideas; communication. A communication scheme that requires a massive engineering effort to interpret it is bad. A web browser should be something that a small community team can throw together in a couple months.