European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitrust case

Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by ModernMech on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @12:04PM (#17559590)

> You're missing the massive point that it was also happened to be far superior to Firefox and IE when it came out

I mean, you really could have said the same thing about IE 4 when it came out. It was actually better than Communicator at the time, which was a bloated, unfocused, mess of a browser.

It's hard to find news and reviews from 1997 to back me up, but here are a couple accounts I found recollecting their experiences with the browsers: https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Netscape-lose-ground-to-IE

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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by Joeri on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @02:09PM (#17560703)

I was a www user at the time and that’s how I remember it. IE4 was clearly better than netscape’s comparable offering at the time, and IE5 and IE6 entrenched that lead to the point where I had to switch to IE. Much faster and much better standards support (ironically IE6 had by far the best standards support at the time of its release.)

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