Indeed. Also bundling Chrome with their Android OS and making it hard for OEMs to change kind of reminds me of another round of this from a couple decades ago.
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Replying to @asadotzler @TedMielczarek and
And yet Firefox fought IE to a draw and then some with a tiny staff and no money. Times are different, and I don't want to romanticize the past, but I this perspective feels way to defeatist to me. Half a billion dollars a year gives you a lot of options.
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Replying to @wycats @TedMielczarek and
It takes a huge team to implement today's increasingly complex web standards compared to back then. Real browsers have engines :P
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Replying to @asadotzler @TedMielczarek and
UC is absolutely its own engine (it's a fork of webkit, but so is Blink, and I think you count Blink as a "real engine"). As a framework author, I wish it weren't so, but it is.
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Replying to @wycats @TedMielczarek and
I don't consider all webkit forks the way I consider Google and Blink. Do you?
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Replying to @asadotzler @TedMielczarek and
It's a very old fork with extremely significant divergences, including a huge reliance on server processing. They're not just leeching off of Apple; not at all.
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Replying to @wycats @asadotzler and
For what it’s worth, I think UC Browser is pretty different, because they would not be competitive at all if they weren’t targeting the Chinese market specifically (market share data confirms this).
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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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Replying to @wycats @asadotzler and
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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I say “right now” because I think it would be possible to break in, like Firefox against IE. But your product has to be WAY BETTER than anything out there.
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