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"The main issue is: "(mobile) Chrome, and the promise of a stable official browser in Android is fucked because everybody ships 4 and 10 versions behind custom
by DannyBee 12y ago
"The main issue is: "(mobile) Chrome, and the promise of a stable official browser in Android is fucked because everybody ships 4 and 10 versions behind custom versions of Chromium, so its Android share and the hope of a single modern browser for Android users is slipping".
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The conclusion does not follow, because nobody has ever, AFAIK, promised the stable browser was "internet" or "browser" or whatever the hell they call it on each phone.
Chrome should exist on all of these, if you want a stable , modern, browser, that's it.
Android webkit should also be the same on all of them (AFAIK).
Past that, forcing "internet browser" on various phones to be the same would be exactly the behavior that MS had trouble with.
- coldtea 12y ago>Past that, forcing "internet browser" on various phones to be the same would be exactly the behavior that MS had trouble with. No, the behavior Microsoft had trouble with was abusing its monopoly position in the PC market. Google is not a monopoly in that sense for mobile OSes (the vendor of something is not considered a monopoly in its own product, e.g. Apple is not a "monopoly" on iOS, it's just its vendor. The "monopoly position" applies or not only in relation to the general market, not within a single product).