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Except with Microsoft browsers, the populace has decades of conditioning telling us "Internet Explorer bad, need to install my own browser." And when Edge came
by starttoaster 3y ago
Except with Microsoft browsers, the populace has decades of conditioning telling us "Internet Explorer bad, need to install my own browser." And when Edge came out, everyone just continued what they were already doing. When Edge came out, it also had serious issues with media playback at times that reinforced that decision to many.
The power of the defaults is not overrated. This is just an excellent example of an "exception."
In the case of Google, they already have decades of conditioning with people viewing it as the main or only search engine worth anything. When you need to look up something, most people would tell you to "google it." The power of the defaults benefits google.com much better than it benefits Microsoft with browsers.
- pr337h4m 3y ago>The power of the defaults benefits google.com much better than it benefits Microsoft with browsers. And that's simply because the delta between Google and the competition in search is greater than the delta between Microsoft and its competition in browsers
- starttoaster 3y agoRight, so if your product is the default offering, and you're already the most popular, the competition has its legs cut out from under them. Granted, the power of the defaults is usually strongest in the context of random settings in a product that end users don't know anything about. Search engines are something most people know at least something about by now.