Re:Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy
by jononor on Thursday February 08, 2024 @02:04PM
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Are there other browsers that have successfully built a niche? And how does one use that to bring in enough money to sustain a reasonable sized organization?
To me it neither seems easy, nor any guarantee of success.
Re:Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy
by KingOfCoders on Thursday February 08, 2024 @02:41PM
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Well Mozilla got >$6.000.000.000 - so I do thing this is enough money. Do you think they would have needed more money?
Brave currently tries to grow from the secure niche. I think Chrome started from the developer niche, with developer tools, being embeddable, open sourcing a rendering engine etc.
Re:Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy
by jononor on Thursday February 08, 2024 @05:45PM
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I am not sure clawing back a significant amount of marketshare can be done with any amount of money. As long as there is no access to a distribution channel that is similar in size and low friction to what the other browsers have, it will at least be extremely tough. Far from "easy".
Apple started their comeback with developers who liked the combination of a slick UI, commercial software and a unix shell (Got a G4 Cube around 2002 or so, then a Macbook). Dominating that niche made them hip and then everyone wanted one. The rest is history.
Everyone uses Linux, even if MS did everything to push MS on servers. And don't forget Apple spend millions (billions?) on pushing OSX to the server two (I had some XServe and XSans). But Linux dominated, and not because of Red Hat.
Many people and perhaps in the future everyone uses Postgres, even if MS and Oracle spend millions (billions?) to prevent this.