Comment by ren_engineer
2 years ago
>Google Docs created in 2006
tech was based on an acquired company, Google just abused their search monopoly to make it more popular(same thing they did with YT). This has been the strategy for every service they've ever made, Google really hasn't launched a decent in-house product since Gmail and even that was grown using their search monopoly as free advertising
>Google Docs originated from Writely, a web-based word processor created by the software company Upstartle and launched in August 2005
> Google really hasn't launched a decent in-house product since Gmail
What about Chrome? And Chromebooks?
Sorry if this was a joke and I didn't spot it. Chrome was based on WebKit which was itself based on KHTML if memory serves. Chromebooks are based on a version of that outside engine running on top of Linux which they also didn't create.
It's not a joke. Just because they didn't write everything from scratch (Chromebooks also are made with hard disks that Google didn't create from directly mining raw materials and performing all intermediate manufacturing stages) doesn't mean they haven't released successful products that they didn't just buy in.
They used the KDE-derived HTML renderer, sure, but they wrote the whole Javascript runtime from scratch, which was what gave it the speed they used as a selling point.
Chrome as a project was still a Google thing even if they used Konqueror's rendering library.
The process model was the novel selling point at the time from my memory [1].
[1] https://www.scottmccloud.com/googlechrome/
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Webkit is not a browser.
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Chromebooks are worse version of the netbooks from 2008, which ran an actual desktop OS. Chromebooks are OLPCs for the rich world, designed with vendor lock-in built in. They eventually end up at discount wholesale lots if not landfills because how quickly they go obsolete.
mmm, WebKit?
Chromium browsers do use WebKit
https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/display...
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I laughed out loud for this one