What's the business model for the Chrome business if it's split off?
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If finding a business model other than "loss-leader for monopolist" for a piece of software used by billions of people is an intractable problem, that in itself is a more scathing indictment of the entire industry than anything I could come up with
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Replying to @ravikanodia @Pinboard
You aren't wrong - the entire industry is a completely mess. But if you break it off without having a clue about this, then it'll just die and that doesn't help anything.
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Well, to refute my own argument, at least that would stop letting Google use it to take over.
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It’s a good question: I assume it’s the Firefox model. But what it means is that Google Search, Google web apps, and the ex-Google browser all make their decisions based on market pressure, not based on back-channel coordination.
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Replying to @hyperpape @mhkohne and
If that’s not Pinboard’s expectation about what would happen, I hope he’ll correct me, because I had the same question, and this is all I could come up with.
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I'm not sure I understand the question; can you restate it?
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Sure, short version is: do you think there’s a business mode for an independent chrome that sustains similar levels of engineering effort as it has today? If so, what?
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Not without catching up on the industry; my knowledge of the business of browsers is a few years out of date. The last model I remember seeming to work well was Mozilla taking lots of money to be the default search engine. I'd love to hear what others who know more think
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From the outside, it seems to me as if the Mozilla model is struggling at least in part since keeping up with Chrome/supporting Google properties as well as Chrome is such a huge part of the benchmark of success for a modern browser.
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Mozilla has a bunch of intersecting pathologies right now, so it's hard to draw a clean lesson from them. If I can rephrase your point as Google's anticompetitive deep integration of its properties with Chrome being harmful to rivals, then I absolutely agree
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I'm fine with that rephrasing.
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