How many of those 40k employees work on Chrome?
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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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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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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