Safari is holding back the web. It is the new IE, after all. In contrast, Chrome is pushing the web forward so hard that it’s starting to break. Meanwhile web developers do nothing except moan and complain. The only thing...
Also, I wasn’t around to observe IE at the height of its glory, but I feel like we’re not noticing the similarities between Chrome and IE, because we only remember the long decline of IE.
At some point, Microsoft also rapidly developed new standards, a.k.a. the “extend” phase. They may have been less open than Google’s standards, but the effect is the same: The competition can’t implement them in a reasonable time frame.
And that, along with other strategies, ultimately leads to the competition dropping out (Opera, IE, Edge) or losing users (Firefox, Safari), which will eventually lead to a web entirely dictated by Google.
They probably won’t “extinguish” it completely, because it is their home turf, where they make tons of money, but they will make things less comfortable for their competitors (see e.g. them wanting to replace Cookies with FLoC).
Also, I wasn’t around to observe IE at the height of its glory, but I feel like we’re not noticing the similarities between Chrome and IE, because we only remember the long decline of IE.
At some point, Microsoft also rapidly developed new standards, a.k.a. the “extend” phase. They may have been less open than Google’s standards, but the effect is the same: The competition can’t implement them in a reasonable time frame.
And that, along with other strategies, ultimately leads to the competition dropping out (Opera, IE, Edge) or losing users (Firefox, Safari), which will eventually lead to a web entirely dictated by Google.
They probably won’t “extinguish” it completely, because it is their home turf, where they make tons of money, but they will make things less comfortable for their competitors (see e.g. them wanting to replace Cookies with FLoC).