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Re:The Web is the Next Platform (1995) by johnchristopher on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @02:10PM (#22751777)
It's incredible how it is visionary, articulated and spot-on and yet:

> Once we have market and mind share on the Web with our products, we can take a leadership role in expanding and shaping the Web.

They still want to strangle and submit the thing to their will and their will only.

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Re:The Web is the Next Platform (1995) by enos_feedler on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @02:17PM (#22751846)
So did this role end up in the hands of Google?
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Re:The Web is the Next Platform (1995) by moonchild on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @03:31PM (#22752678)
More or less. Microsoft tried, but they didn't spend enough time in the Embrace phase for it to work out.

Google, meanwhile, has spent long enough in the Extend phase they they barely need to move on (though they are starting to now).

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Re:The Web is the Next Platform (1995) by echelon on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @05:35PM (#22753765)
> Extend phase

Chrome, AMP, "improved" HTML standards, platformization...

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