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.
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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So like what Opera was doing before they gave up on it? How much of that is browser engine? I thought it was a tiny engine footprint with a big server side implementation.
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So they don't exactly *maintain* a browser engine? Do they beat any of the real browser engines to implementing new web standards? Do the write web standards at WHATWG and W3C, Chronos, IETF, etc. What changes to the web platform are they responsible for?
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