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> change is its weapon of monopoly

I think it's OK for Google to make Chrome into an OS and cram whatever they want into it as fast as they can.

Regular web browsers don't necessarily need to be on the same feature treadmill/death march (assuming they could keep up.)

We seem to be trying really hard to reinvent the applet systems of the 1990s, but in a way that brings systems with 10-100x the memory and CPU resources to their knees and requires huge armies of programmers to implement. I guess JavaScript/webasm is better than Java in some ways.



> it's OK for Google to make Chrome into an OS

> Regular web browsers

Chrome is a "regular web browser". It holds a 70% market share among web browsers.

> Regular web browsers don't necessarily need to be on the same feature treadmill/death march (assuming they could keep up.)

They either don't need to be on the same death march, or keep up. You can't have both.

Currently, it's a major problem, because Chrome churns out 40-70 new web APIs with every release which happens every two months or so [1]

So, no, it's not OK for Google to convert Chrome into an OS.

[1] https://web-confluence.appspot.com/#!/


> Currently, it's a major problem

It certainly is an insane amount of feature churn.

But the right perspective might be to look at the impact on end users.

The issue for end users seems to be that they occasionally encounter "web sites" (really web apps) that only work properly with Chrome. This is sort of a bummer for iOS users, but for the most part they seem to get by just fine. Perhaps there will be a tipping point where the "web" becomes unusable from iOS, but it hasn't happened yet.

I consider this a comparable problem to encountering web sites that only worked with Internet Explorer, or Flash, or Silverlight, or Java. Certainly annoying, but not really catastrophic.




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