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Re:Substack Notes Launched by Nathanba on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @08:25PM (#35533555)
When Chrome launched, it only launched with ~2-3% market share in the first week compared to Firefox. Everyone thought that Chrome wasn't that good and Firefox would be fine. However I knew on day one that Firefox was in serious trouble and I switched browsers immediately. But what I didn't know is that Firefox would do nothing to compete for 10 years.
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Re:Substack Notes Launched by taeric on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @09:16PM (#35533863)
Chrome launched with an absurd amount of money to burn, though.

And... I don't recall this "everyone" that you are citing. Chrome launched when Google had a ton of good will.

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Re:Substack Notes Launched by TechBro8615 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @12:10AM (#35534910)
> Chrome launched with an absurd amount of money to burn

OpenAI has $100bn+ from Microsoft, and millions of paying subscribers.

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Re:Substack Notes Launched by datpiff on Thursday April 13, 2023 @11:10AM (#35556672)
$100bn+?

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/08/microsofts-complex-bet-on-op...

"Microsoft’s $13 billion bet on OpenAI carries huge potential along with plenty of uncertainty"

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Re:Substack Notes Launched by TechBro8615 on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @05:37PM (#35620619)
Yeah, no idea where I got this $100bn number in my head... I guess that does sound pretty ridiculous now that I think about it!
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