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Replying to @slightlylate @ElliottZ
At the same time, it's the last, best hope to prevent exactly the same thing happening to Chrome.
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You missed the lesson. Apple is doing is *exactly what caused IE to became a liability*. Good investment '06-'08 (maybe '09?). Boat-anchor thereafter + anticompetitive behaviour from OS. IE's issue wasn't that it sucked, it's that MSFT disbanded/underfunded team post '01
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The smart people who should know better making these thoughtless arguments confidently is *mind blowing*
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I'm *really* surprised that a calculated risk about Google continuing to invest in an open ecosystem -- including the OSS-ness that MSFT fought so hard against in the day -- is being equated with the sort of Hotel-Cuoertino clauses + underfunding we see from Apple *today*...
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Replying to @slightlylate @ElliottZ
Google has set a very high bar for that investment, and it appears to actively discourage others from doing the same. As we've discussed many times, part of the power and value of the Web is in multiple implementations of the browser.
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In a better world, Apple would invest heavily in the Web, and so would Microsoft, and many others. In the world we've got, I'm not convinced that will happen.
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W/o the spark of competition, what makes you think the alternative isn't just slow rot?
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