I assume that the previous commenter was referring to Google's monopolies in search, email, and video.
All of which they will use to yell at you to switch to Chrome, and will sometimes cause to actually be faster or more featureful when using Chrome rather than any other browser.
It's a pretty clear case of using your monopoly in one market to artificially prop up your entry into a different market, which is very much the sort of thing that has traditionally been frowned upon both legally and morally.
Back when Chrome was fresh, it was pushed very hard by Google through their home page and other related services until it became dominant. It was also the time when Firefox suffered from certain quality issues which really helped Chrome. So, it wasn't the ecosystem thing because Google was, and to some extent still is, the de facto home page of most people, regardless of the OS.
You think Chrome has ~62% market share because ..Meets has blurred backgrounds ?
If anything, it is impressive how Chrome has managed to be the majority browser, given that by default we get Edge on Windows, Safari on MacOS/iOS and Firefox on Ubuntu.
That's what they are supposed to do. The web standards bodies don't like to consider standardizing new features until there is an implementation in the field so they can see how well it works in practice.
So when one browser maker wants a new feature they make a spec and implement it. If it seems to be useful other browser makers will implement it, maybe with changes they think improve it. Then the standards bodies will look at all those and make a standard.
For that particular feature it was actually first suggested by people from Intel and Apple. Google thinks it is a good idea and is the first to write a spec for it and implement it. It seems highly likely that Mozilla and Apple will follow and it will be standardized.
I assume that the previous commenter was referring to Google's monopolies in search, email, and video.
All of which they will use to yell at you to switch to Chrome, and will sometimes cause to actually be faster or more featureful when using Chrome rather than any other browser.
It's a pretty clear case of using your monopoly in one market to artificially prop up your entry into a different market, which is very much the sort of thing that has traditionally been frowned upon both legally and morally.
Back when Chrome was fresh, it was pushed very hard by Google through their home page and other related services until it became dominant. It was also the time when Firefox suffered from certain quality issues which really helped Chrome. So, it wasn't the ecosystem thing because Google was, and to some extent still is, the de facto home page of most people, regardless of the OS.
they implement features.only supported by chromium. see google meets blur background.
You think Chrome has ~62% market share because ..Meets has blurred backgrounds ?
If anything, it is impressive how Chrome has managed to be the majority browser, given that by default we get Edge on Windows, Safari on MacOS/iOS and Firefox on Ubuntu.
That's what they are supposed to do. The web standards bodies don't like to consider standardizing new features until there is an implementation in the field so they can see how well it works in practice.
So when one browser maker wants a new feature they make a spec and implement it. If it seems to be useful other browser makers will implement it, maybe with changes they think improve it. Then the standards bodies will look at all those and make a standard.
For that particular feature it was actually first suggested by people from Intel and Apple. Google thinks it is a good idea and is the first to write a spec for it and implement it. It seems highly likely that Mozilla and Apple will follow and it will be standardized.
And for any non-Google Android phone!