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Don't forget that they acquired YouTube, Maps, Picasa, Android and Chrome is a wrapper around WebKit.

• graetzer 14y ago
  Chrome is not just a wrapper. WebKit requires you to implement networking, graphics rendering, font rendering etc. There are huge differences between the different WebKit based browsers
  • taligent 14y ago
    Sure but you can just defer to the OS for the bulk of those services e.g. CoreGraphics, DirectWrite etc.
    • jganetsk 14y ago
      Things unique to Chrome that don't come from the OS: V8 Javascript engine, process isolation model, networking including new protocols like SPDY and possibly QUIC [1], auto-update (for browser and all apps and extensions) Chrome sync (for bookmarks, open tabs, apps, extensions). Don't forget that the Chrome team is now a major contributor to WebKit. [1] https://plus.google.com/u/0/100132233764003563318/posts/b36wVornPtD https://plus.google.com/u/0/100132233764003563318/posts/b36w...
• ishansharma 14y ago
  But they did good job with them. YouTube, Maps and Android are on top in terms of market share and Chrome is on its way. However, I feel that there is a big problem with Google: Customer Care.
• BitMastro 14y ago
  And WebKit is forked from KDE KHTML, Apple acquired FingerWorks for multitouch, C3 Technologies for 3D mapping and Siri (http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2010/04/28/apple-moves-deeper-into-voice-activated-search-with-siri-buy/ http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2010/04/28/apple-moves-d...) So what's your point? Acquiring is bad?