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> But ChatGPT is an insane brand I mean, so was netscape.
by riffraff 11mo ago
> But ChatGPT is an insane brand
I mean, so was netscape.
- littlestymaar 11mo agoMaybe, I was too young to remember that.
- littlestymaar 11mo agoWhat's up with the flock of downvotes? I'd never got a comment with so many as this one… Is being younger than 45 not allowed in here?
- cmiles8 11mo agoThis. Netscape was THE browser in the early phases of the Internet. Then Microsoft just packaged IE into Windows and it was game over. The brand means nothing long term. If Google broadly incorporates Gemini into all the Google-owned things everyone already has then it’s game over for OpenAI. The mass commoditization of the tech is rapidly driving AI to be a feature, not a product. And Google is very strongly positioned to take advantage of that. Microsoft too, and of course they have a relationship with OpenAI but that’s fraying.
- cruffle_duffle 11mo agoTo be completely fair the later versions of Netscape were increasingly giant bloated piles of crap while IE slowly caught up and surpassed in terms of speed and features. The first versions IE were only good for downloading Netscape. Netscape, to a large degree, killed itself. Not to say IE turned into anything good though. But it did have its hayday.