Re:Ask HN: Why exactly is Chromium dominance such a bad thing?
by tannhaeuser on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @06:19PM
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It's bad that something invented as a standard for dead-easy self-publishing has been usurped and perverted into animated TV and app delivery. And having the player app (the browser) and the content coming from the same party is a bad result, too, considering how much public money and community work went into the web. We had proprietary nets and bogus media and protocol standards with CompuServe, AOL, and others already - we didn't need a 20+ years detour to arrive again at square zero with monopolistic middle men.
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Re:Ask HN: Why exactly is Chromium dominance such a bad thing?
by pipeline_peak on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @08:19PM
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Well put, I forget how much Google actually owns. Microsoft had an OS, AOL had ISP, but Google has The Internet and a good portion of phones.
Re:Ask HN: Why exactly is Chromium dominance such a bad thing?
by coffeeling on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @12:38PM
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"good portion" is putting it mildly - according to statcounter the worldwide mobile OS share is about 70-30 in favour of Google, with Japan being one of the only markets where there's more Apple devices than Google ones.
Re:Ask HN: Why exactly is Chromium dominance such a bad thing?
by pipeline_peak on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @04:23PM
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I've been reading tech news for quite a while, I've heard bad things about Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and Tesla, but I rarely hear anything bad about Google.
I bet some of that is caused by their prevention.