Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
by graeme on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @12:03AM
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I think you mean order of magnitude, which means 10x. Magnitude just means size. Chrome's market share is not an order of magnitude higher than Safari.
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Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
by whiplash451 on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @03:14AM
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In the business world it is, because going from 18% to 65% market share is much more than a 4X improvement. Market share progress is highly non-linear in cost/investment/strategy. There are network effects at play favoring a winner-takes-all.
Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
by freedomben on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @12:05PM
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A (truly) clever argument! Def seems like a stretch though, especially if you're hoping to save GP's comment by suggesting that this is what they had in mind :-)
Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
by diffeomorphism on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @03:15AM
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No, that might be the word origin but not how it is actually used. Just like "decimate" nowadays does not require a factor 10.
So instead of "10x" substitute "by a large enough factor or margin to make a significant difference". That is totally true globally speaking. Locally, in the US, you could however argue that apple abuses it's iPhone market share to sabotage competition (e.g. streaming, webstandards,etc). That just means you should sue both not neither.