But if it was profitable then it is enough, you don't have to kill the competition. The problem is when a corporation puts a lot of money and copies you then surpasses you and on top of the ton of developers Chrome had they used shitty tactics like promoting their browser on the google home page and bundling it with other programs.

Opera is a good example. they did a lot of innovation a Google like tyrant is not needed.

I actually think that that Chrome ad on the Google homepage was the most anti-competitive thing Google have ever done.

Like, no-one else in the world could possibly have gained access to that ad-space (possibly the most impactful ad-space in the world), and yet no-one even covers this in the anti-trust/competition investigations.

I got really sick of ignoring the constant prompts to install Chrome over the years (and I still use Firefox).

Mind you, at least the EU took them to task for Android service bundling, should be interesting to see what comes of that.