Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals
by Gud on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @08:44AM
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Firefox was amazing by the time Chrome was released.
Google survives by selling advertisements, essentially making the web worse.
Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals
by robertlagrant on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @09:34AM
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> Google survives by selling advertisements, essentially making the web worse.
This seems entirely subjective. I prefer using Lichess to Chess.com, but I would in no way think that Chess.com, with its sponsoring of full-time players, makes the game worse. Advertising-related money goes somewhere and pays for things.
Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals
by gandalfian on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @01:08PM
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"Firefox was amazing by the time Chrome was released"
Yes but it also frequently ground to a halt trying to multitask tabs. Chrome didn't so we all switched to chrome.
Firefox wasn't so great back then. Google survives by the Web being great. A free, premiere browser experience means people use the Web.
> every time I've been around the "we should open source $foo" conversation, the managers have asked, essentially "what's in it for us?"
Google overflows with money, so P&L enforcement likely isn't so evident, and they might've just had some engineers saying they wanted to do it that way, and the person with approval power was probably also an engineer.