• vixian@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    most of the population isn’t tech-savvy enough to know about different browser types, or care about which one they’re using. The reason chrome is so dominant is because it comes pre-installed on many devices, and so people just don’t bother to change it.

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      1 year ago

      Well… It certainly helps, thats for sure.

      But the main reason why everyone uses Chrome, is the same reason why everyone uses Google, and why everyone has a Gmail.

      It was, at one point in time, a revolutionary product, which completely wiped competitors of the time.

      I still remember when Chrome was launched, and how I immediate told all my friends and family to make th switch. Chrome was just so much faster, so much sleeker, and so much more intuitive. They basically didnt need to market themselves, as the product did all the work from them.

      Now we’re in a different boat, and because of the high market-share, they can start playing dirty.

      Other browsers have also more than caught up, but let me tell you, Firefox used to not be comparable to the Chrome experience at all, back in the day.

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      1 year ago

      Well… It certainly helps, thats for sure.

      But the main reason why everyone uses Chrome, is the same reason why everyone uses Google, and why everyone has a Gmail.

      It was, at one point in time, a revolutionary product, which completely wiped competitors of the time.

      I still remember when Chrome was launched, and how I immediate told all my friends and family to make th switch. Chrome was just so much faster, so much sleeker, and so much more intuitive. They basically didnt need to market themselves, as the product did all the work from them.

      Now we’re in a different boat, and because of the high market-share, they can start playing dirty.

      Other browsers have also more than caught up, but let me tell you, Firefox used to not be comparable to the Chrome experience at all, back in the day.

    • Fox
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      1 year ago

      Well… It certainly helps, thats for sure.

      But the main reason why everyone uses Chrome, is the same reason why everyone uses Google, and why everyone has a Gmail.

      It was, at one point in time, a revolutionary product, which completely wiped competitors of the time.

      I still remember when Chrome was launched, and how I immediate told all my friends and family to make th switch. Chrome was just so much faster, so much sleeker, and so much more intuitive. They basically didnt need to market themselves, as the product did all the work from them.

      Now we’re in a different boat, and because of the high market-share, they can start playing dirty.

      Other browsers have also more than caught up, but let me tell you, Firefox used to not be comparable to the Chrome experience at all, back in the day.