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> First, Chrome won the browser war fair and square by building a better surfboard for the internet. Ah, yes, because as we all know, tech illiterate users (i.
by latexr 2y ago
> First, Chrome won the browser war fair and square by building a better surfboard for the internet.
Ah, yes, because as we all know, tech illiterate users (i.e. the majority) care deeply about which web browser they’re running, and after rigorous testing settled on Chrome. It had nothing to do with Google pushing Chrome on users every chance they got, using every trick in the book to get everyone to install their browser and degrading their popular services on alternative browsers. No sire, no foul play and trickery there, Google played fair and square. No one has ever known Google to be more than a fair and honest champion for users. What was their motto again? “Don’t be evil”? Well, I’m sure it doesn’t mean anything that they stopped using that.
To not fall victim to Poe’s law: Yes, that was heavy sarcasm.
- EbNar 2y agoI don't agree. Firefox once had almost 30% market share. A lot of people explicitly downloaded and installed it, when IE was dominant and Linux almost non-existent. What happened? Those people suddenly became stupid or tech illiterate? Take into account that or has lost not only in market share, but also in absolute number of users. Mozilla has its fair share of blame here.
- dismalaf 2y agoEdge literally makes itself the default on updates, yet Chrome is more popular. Oh, the #1 query on Bing is "Google".