> I'll bite: do you think that Chrome is some sort of conspiracy?
No, it's a perfectly rational set of business decisions. I'd make the same ones if I was in charge of maximizing Google's control of the web platform.
> Mozilla, Apple, and Microsoft are not poorly funded
Correct. Apple and Microsoft just can't make a business case for burning huge mountains of cash to dominate the web, so they let Google have that pie. Again, a rational business decision.
So we end up with what is largely a monoculture, with fewer compatible web browsers than any time in the past 20 years, because is willing or able to put in the resources to keep up with the incredible complexity required by the modern web.
No, it's a perfectly rational set of business decisions. I'd make the same ones if I was in charge of maximizing Google's control of the web platform.
> Mozilla, Apple, and Microsoft are not poorly funded
Correct. Apple and Microsoft just can't make a business case for burning huge mountains of cash to dominate the web, so they let Google have that pie. Again, a rational business decision.
So we end up with what is largely a monoculture, with fewer compatible web browsers than any time in the past 20 years, because is willing or able to put in the resources to keep up with the incredible complexity required by the modern web.