You're a $500M/year org, not a tiny org. (that doesn't make Axel right either).
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"Troll the Titans" is a ridiculous slogan for a company with $500MM a year in annual revenue.
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It's also definitely enough. There is no question.
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I honestly think it's not about money at all it's about things like Google being the #1 search and advertising company. For a while they advertised Chrome on the search page, which was a position no one else could buy.
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Also things like favoring / pushing Chrome in massive web properties like YouTube are basically priceless.
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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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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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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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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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I don't consider all webkit forks the way I consider Google and Blink. Do you?
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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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