Re:Apple’s app store and other digital marketplaces [pdf]
by twblalock on Friday July 24, 2020 @03:43PM
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Netscape Navigator and Communicator, Mozilla (the original one), and Opera all existed at the time and were trivially easy to obtain.
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Re:Apple’s app store and other digital marketplaces [pdf]
by greedo on Friday July 24, 2020 @06:50PM
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Neither Netscape Navigator nor Opera were free. Mozilla took over a decade to become competitive. It wasn't until Safari and Chrome came along that there was any real competition to IE. IE was the web for a long long time.