Comment by meheleventyone

3 years ago

I’d expect them to consider Chrome a loss-leader to get people online since the vast majority of their advertising is online. So giving people the best possible web experience will increase the amount of ads they’ll see.

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victorbjorklund  3 years ago

Everyone already have built in browsers. If chrome was shutdown tomorrow its not like people would all go offline because they cant access the internet.

  • Xelbair  3 years ago

    Guess what's the engine that majority of those build in browsers use.

    • hnben  3 years ago

      what argument are you trying to make here? something about the current state of the webkit engine, or more like the long-term resilience of the ecosystem?

atoav  3 years ago

No. It is their way of influencing how the web shapes out to be.

Your theory doesn't make any sense since every OS/device comes with a free web browser since I can think.

  • meheleventyone  3 years ago

    My theory is not just giving people a browser but giving them the best possible experience. Chrome has an enormous market share given every OS and device comes with a free web browser. Further the developer experience using Chrome is also superb!

    • atoav  3 years ago

      I am a live long firefox user that also uses chrome. The difference between the two in term of performance is so small and differenciated between various areas, it doesn't even matter.

      Usability is a very subjective topic, but for me there are things in firefox or it's addons that I cannot have in chrome.

      And in the end I need to trust my browser for daily (non-developer) use. Trusting google is naive. I don't say Mozilla is deserving of unquestioned trust either, but out of the two it is the better choice.

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