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Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010) by philplckthun on Thursday January 02, 2020 @09:08PM (#21942365)
> Now that Google is advertising Chrome on billboards here in the UK, all that can be safely predicted about the browser market is that it'll be extremely competitive.

It's rather interesting to see how the web went from IE dominating, to Chrome doing essentially the same. Looks like predicting such a growth was farfetched.

Funny to see that the prediction of IE sticking around was mostly right. I long for the day that IE11 will mostly be gone.

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Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010) by jnwatson on Thursday January 02, 2020 @09:21PM (#21942437)
Internet Explorer 6 could have been the dominant browser essentially forever if Microsoft hadn’t zeroed its investment into it. Its incentives weren’t aligned with a robust web platform. Google’s incentives are definitely aligned for Chrome to dominate.
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