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>Google Docs created in 2006 tech was based on an acquired company, Google just abused their search monopoly to make it more popular(same thing they did with Y
by ren_engineer 3y ago
>Google Docs created in 2006
tech was based on an acquired company, Google just abused their search monopoly to make it more popular(same thing they did with YT). This has been the strategy for every service they've ever made, Google really hasn't launched a decent in-house product since Gmail and even that was grown using their search monopoly as free advertising
>Google Docs originated from Writely, a web-based word processor created by the software company Upstartle and launched in August 2005
- robertlagrant 3y ago> Google really hasn't launched a decent in-house product since Gmail What about Chrome? And Chromebooks?
- camflan 3y agommm, WebKit?
- nieve 3y agoSorry if this was a joke and I didn't spot it. Chrome was based on WebKit which was itself based on KHTML if memory serves. Chromebooks are based on a version of that outside engine running on top of Linux which they also didn't create.
- robertlagrant 3y agoIt's not a joke. Just because they didn't write everything from scratch (Chromebooks also are made with hard disks that Google didn't create from directly mining raw materials and performing all intermediate manufacturing stages) doesn't mean they haven't released successful products that they didn't just buy in.
- jamedjo 3y agoChrome as a project was still a Google thing even if they used Konqueror's rendering library. The process model was the novel selling point at the time from my memory [1]. [1] https://www.scottmccloud.com/googlechrome/ https://www.scottmccloud.com/googlechrome/
- lmm 3y agoThe faster javascript runtime was what made it a success IMO.
- acheron 3y agoThe leveraging their search monopoly to push it and paying other software to sneak it into installs is what made it a success.
- lmm 3y agoNah. Safari did plenty of monopoly abuse and sneaking into installs, but still never got big on Windows. At some point the user experience does matter.
- lmm 3y agoThey used the KDE-derived HTML renderer, sure, but they wrote the whole Javascript runtime from scratch, which was what gave it the speed they used as a selling point.
- rchaud 3y agoChromebooks are worse version of the netbooks from 2008, which ran an actual desktop OS. Chromebooks are OLPCs for the rich world, designed with vendor lock-in built in. They eventually end up at discount wholesale lots if not landfills because how quickly they go obsolete.