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Firefox is also the only "major" browser not installed on any device by default. People with windows use edge, people with mac or ios use safari, people with an
by inigyou 3mo ago
Firefox is also the only "major" browser not installed on any device by default. People with windows use edge, people with mac or ios use safari, people with android use chrome. People with linux use firefox but those are extremely few since none of the machines you buy at the store have linux.
It's really that simple. Marketing realism wins over technical excellence every single time.
Do you know why Valve invested so much into Linux? It's because Microsoft threatened to blacklist Steam from Windows unless they gave Microsoft a 30% cut of all sales. Why would Microsoft do that? Because they can, and it makes money on average (failed this time in particular though). Capitalism is a dog-eat-dog world.
- alt227 3mo ago> Microsoft threatened to blacklist Steam from Windows That would never fly with consumers, Microsoft are big but not that big.
- inigyou 3mo agoWhat would said consumers do about it? Nothing, that's what. No matter how much you think they should do, they won't. Just like your phone isn't a Linux phone.
- alt227 3mo agoI guarantee you if steam was blocked on windows, lots of gamers would do something about it. They are generally technically adept people, and if their multi-hundred pound library of games suddenly got taken away from them on windows, many would buy a steam deck or dual boot linux to get that back.
- inigyou 3mo agoYeah they'd probably run the same .exe files from their steam folders. And to buy new games, they'd go where games are sold. Which would be the Microsoft store. Which would be extremely beneficial for Microsoft.
- alt227 3mo agoThere would be no update mechanism meaning games would get out of date with no way to apply patches, and no steam api for multiplayer games meaning nothing would work online. You seem to not really know much about the subject so I will stop debating with you here.
- account42 3mo agoThat's why they won't do it all at once. First they'll introduce a special kind of more limited application where Microsoft has to approve them before you are allowed to install them. Then they'll have some editions of Windows only allow those limited applications. Finally they'll keep expanding that until only $$$ enterprise customers can run applications that haven't been approved by Microsoft. These big tech companies are well acquainted with managing consumer backlash for unpopular changes.
- shooly 3mo ago> Marketing realism wins over technical excellence every single time It is so annoying to see this idiotic mantra being repeated every single time a thread like this pops up. It's simply not true. There is no conspiracy, people aren't being manipulated by Big Tech to like Chromium-based browsers more. Those browsers are simply better and that's it. That's really all there is to it.
- inigyou 3mo agoNo, they're simply preinstalled and that's it. It's so annoying whenever you say chrome wins because it's preinstalled someone makes a stupid comment about how it's not a big tech conspiracy. Did I say it was a big tech conspiracy?
- TiredOfLife 3mo ago> Microsoft threatened to blacklist Steam from Windows Never happened.