How many of those 40k employees work on Chrome?
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Even those not working on Chrome seem determined to build a moat for Chrome by not interoperating with other browsers. See Google search results on Firefox for Android or Google Hangouts on desktop. Google's non-Chrome employees are cementing Chrome's dominance. Can't discount.
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I just think treating a company with $500MM of revenue that mostly makes a web browser as a scrappy upstart is pretty misleading, both internally and externally. It's not like you can't be proud of working at a huge company, but the dissonance makes pride harder.
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Google counts its revenues in the tens of billions of dollars per quarter. We're not even in the same league and Google isn't our only competitor, there's also the other richest companies in the world Microsoft and Apple.
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$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.
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Replying to @wycats @asadotzler and
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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Replying to @TedMielczarek @wycats and
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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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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(how big of a budget do you think UC browser has?)
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Replying to @wycats @TedMielczarek and
Does UC have an engine or are they a wrapper that many much smaller companies seem to be able to manage?
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