> Against this background, projects like Chrome don't have to achieve market dominance to be successful, they just have to achieve broad influence. Good point.

> Against this background, projects like Chrome don't have to achieve market dominance to be successful, they just have to achieve broad influence. Good point. After all, GMail's most immediate and important result was that every other mail provider dramatically increased their storage space. At the time yahoo offered only 4 mb for free - in a matter of weeks it jumped almost thousand-fold. Same with Chrome and javascript speed in Firefox.