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Re:The endless browser wars by preommr on Friday February 05, 2021 @08:10AM (#26035885)
Because it's not about the operating system, but all the related services that are embedded in the browser.

I use chrome because it ties with my google account which ties in with... pretty much everything. It stores a lot of my passwords, it ties in with my gmail, my google workspace, my shared extensions that gets installed with any other chrome browsers through this google account, other google apps like google docs/calendar, and other google services like their speech-to-text, and it also ties in with my android phone that is linked to my google account.

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Re:The endless browser wars by Person5478 on Friday February 05, 2021 @11:48AM (#26038287)
exactly.

The platform used to be the OS, but google effectively commoditized it and the new platform is the 'cloud'. If you're on MS your new platform is going to be OWS, Azure, etc. With google it's going to be google cloud, gmail, and so forth.

What's considered a platform has vastly changed.

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