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at this point network effects of Chromium are so great that only antitrust procedures can do anything about Google's domination, just as they did with Microsoft a decade or two ago. (Remember that?)

The same argument can be made against Google now, since the browser has effectively become an OS.



Arguably, the open web is the only place where network effects don't dominate. If they actually focused on Firefox..


oh, they do... development cost on multiple platforms (browsers) makes one of the platforms is not as well supported in aggregate. cost to switch for the user is not big, so you end up with sites which 'work best with chrome', which creates a positive feedback loop.




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