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The market often rewards bloat (more features) not technical excellence. I think a big marketing push or pre-install partnership would help them a lot. Their ma
by supertrope 1y ago
The market often rewards bloat (more features) not technical excellence. I think a big marketing push or pre-install partnership would help them a lot. Their marketshare is now so low that web developers unironically state “Best viewed in Google Chrome” like it’s 2003 when IE6 had 95% marketshare.
- account42 1y agoThe "market" doesn't care about Firefox at all. It has already chosen Chrome and making a second Chrome won't change that.
- sabjut 1y ago"The market has already chosen Internet Explorer and making a second Internet Explorer won't change that." - This was probably said by someone in a meeting at Google in 2006
- thesuitonym 1y agoSure, but Google didn't make a second Internet Explorer, they made a new thing.
- toast0 1y agoChrome is an obvious win for Google. Rather than paying browser makers for every search, they can make one time payments to convert users to Chrome, and then get the searches for free.
- supertrope 1y agoAnd now with their dominant position they can choke off competing ad networks by removing 3rd party cookies.
- marcosdumay 1y agoMaybe the one where they decided not to make a second Internet Explorer and create a different browser? But I doubt they even considered it.