2013-01-09, 19:12 | Link #21 |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 67
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Lots of assertions being thrown around without cites about usage numbers, power, influence.
As a general rule, monopolies aren't a good idea without extensive regulation (like electric utilities). People tend to use a product family out of laziness or wonderful integration. Microsoft has tried this for years - a lot of their products are mediocre but they integrate well. Google is trying to provide that sort of wonderous integration with better tools, that's why Microsoft is worried. Are they good or evil? Well, that's the problem with a monopoly. It might be good this year but all it takes is a change in leadership. Google needs decent competition and regulation to keep it from snuffing out or absorbing competition (which is true of Microsoft and almost any other corporation).
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2013-01-10, 08:07 | Link #25 |
Knight Errant
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Age: 36
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@chrome: it is indeed now the most popular browser.
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2013-01-10, 08:20 | Link #26 |
Tastes Cloudy
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Snake Way
Age: 36
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The SECOND that lady said "Google can basicly hold the world hostage" I Just planted my face to my keyboard.....Really? ...oh god, Just stick to your gun control crap and let books be viewed world wide. Wait but terrorists can read our books!.. is pretty much what they are saying.
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2013-01-10, 13:40 | Link #27 | |
sleepyhead
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: event horizon
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FYI, because IE is such a total scrap bucket anyone using IE has been getting the "good enough to work" version for the longest time now. And you can thank IE for every site running around 30% slower because of all the "patching to work in IE" garbage that has had to be written. Expect in the future to see IE show very crappy plain page, while other browsers show shinny snappy pages, just because the gab is getting that wide. IE may be shipped with every windows box but it doesn't make much difference when it's turning into a situation of "trying to read pdfs with notepad" to make an analogy. People these days are also a lot more accepting of just having sites display differently depending on the device capabilities (or in this case the browsers inabilities), mostly due to advent of mobile.
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