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we will end up again with edge being dominant just because it's the default one installed by Windows. what you say is nice in theory but you already have the M
by cowl 2y ago
we will end up again with edge being dominant just because it's the default one installed by Windows.
what you say is nice in theory but you already have the Microsoft backed Edge and Apple backed Safari that are not hamppered by the "need to find a support model" and "not be a loss leader"
And I am not looking forward again to a world where Microsoft disctates web development because for all privacy problems peaople have or think to have with Google, Microsoft ha proven that does way worse and doesn't even care for the image.
All in All Chrome being a loss leader backed by Google has been a good thing for all involved. Developers, Users and 3-rd parties. without it you woudn't have all those 3rd party chrome based browsers.
- philistine 2y agoThe point is simple: Google has a monopoly in search and has used its control of Chrome to maintain that monopoly. There is no monopoly in browsers, and the DOJ has evaluated that selling off Chrome will not adversely affect the browser market. If we go from Chrome having 66% market share to Edge having 66%, but in the interim the search market has seen more entrants competing fairly, wouldn't that be a benefit?
- 3vidence 2y agoThen a year later Microsoft will be sued for anti competitive practices involving edge. If we just keep selling the browser market to the next trillion dollar company that's not going to fix anything
- philistine 2y agoThe DOJ logic is its going to fix the search market! Are you seriously believing that it will take a year for people to give Microsoft a monopoly position in browsers (which Google still hasn't achieved) when Google divest itself from Chrome? Get real, the DOJ forcing Google to get rid of Chrome is one of the best tech news in years!
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- TZubiri 2y agoBut isn't edge built on chromium?