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Adding innovative features is now considered vendor lock-in? Interesting.

• pcwalton 12y ago
  The "innovative feature" in question here (that they're depending on in Chrome) is performance of sparse arrays with enormous indexes. That's not an "innovative feature" in my mind; in most languages that would be considered an abuse of the built-in array type.
  • res0nat0r 12y ago
    This doesn't seem to have any relevance to "vendor lock-in" though.
    • pcwalton 12y ago
      Yes, it does. It was the reason cited for blocking non-Chrome browsers—i.e. locking in users to a specific vendor.
• normloman 12y ago
  Yes it is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend_and_extinguish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend_and_extingui...
  • res0nat0r 12y ago
    What are they doing to extinguish competitors?
    • pcwalton 12y ago
      In this case, blocking them from their properties and requiring that they switch to Google's browser.