The only reason they can so this is their near monopoly on the browser market.
I remember when Chrome was launched, there was a lot of hype around it, everybody talked about how good and fast it was, I downloaded it, tested it and uninstalled it in 15 min, I didn’t like the UI, and didn’t see the speed advantage everyone was talking about.
To be fair (I’m also old enough to remember and even still have screenshots of OG chrome on my desktop) –
Chrome at the time was stupid fast. Like yes we had Firefox, but it was still the era where most people still clicked on the blue “e” and used Internet Explorer. I myself switched from Firefox when there was core feature parity.
OG Chrome was [comparatively] lean and dumb-fast. But you know, enshittification and feature creep. I also think that Google has changed as a company as time has passed, mostly due to new leadership (e.g. Sundar Pichai).
The only reason they can so this is their near monopoly on the browser market.
I remember when Chrome was launched, there was a lot of hype around it, everybody talked about how good and fast it was, I downloaded it, tested it and uninstalled it in 15 min, I didn’t like the UI, and didn’t see the speed advantage everyone was talking about.
To be fair (I’m also old enough to remember and even still have screenshots of OG chrome on my desktop) –
Chrome at the time was stupid fast. Like yes we had Firefox, but it was still the era where most people still clicked on the blue “e” and used Internet Explorer. I myself switched from Firefox when there was core feature parity.
OG Chrome was [comparatively] lean and dumb-fast. But you know, enshittification and feature creep. I also think that Google has changed as a company as time has passed, mostly due to new leadership (e.g. Sundar Pichai).