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My guess is it may reduce their dependence on WebKit, which is mostly "controlled" (for want of a better word) by Apple and Google, their main competitors.
by dave1010uk 14y ago
My guess is it may reduce their dependence on WebKit, which is mostly "controlled" (for want of a better word) by Apple and Google, their main competitors.
- icambron 14y ago"Driven" would be my choice of words there.
- leoc 14y ago'Controlled' is honestly pretty accurate. In principle anyone can fork WebKit; in practise it would take major investments on the three fronts of engineering effort, standards politics and mass user adoption to make a WebKit fork that "matters" - one that web designers would worry, and have to worry, about being compatible with. If you don't have both the resources and the desire to do that, then you have to play nice with Apple and Google - or with one of their two remaining competitors.
- sanxiyn 14y agoI think this is the best guess.
- Samuel_Michon 14y agoQuite right. Like Apple is trying to become less dependent on Samsung, Samsung is trying to become less dependent on Google.