$500MM for Mozilla is, from my perspective, in the same league as a company making tens of billions with a much more diverse portfolio. $500MM is a ton of money, not "scrappy" in any sense.
I think something much more interesting is the success of Samsung Internet, which speaks volumes about what drives adoption in the mobile space.
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What do you think it teaches us?
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That browsers right now are interchangeable commodities in the mobile space, so integration plays (hardware, Chinese government support, etc.) are pretty much the only thing that drive adoption.
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Samsung seems to be the only vendor in the Android ecosystem with enough hardware market share to have a meaningful (in marketshare across regions) software bundle.
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Exactly.
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