Cringely: Chrome vs. Bing vs. You and Me

Post by alain94040 » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 8:04 PM UTC

kalid wrote: post #7

hillel wrote: post #2

This analysis is sorely lacking perspective. I could pick on a bunch of things but I'll just choose one to make my point. Cringely's assertion that Google should fear making Google search not work on Windows PCs is ludicrous. Period. Anyone who seriously thinks any broadly successful (public) company would pull a stunt like that and piss off the vast bulk of their users has lost touch with reality.

Not even the PR implications, but just the security/technical. How does an OS vendor block access to a website? Deny it in the hosts file? Add a default firewall rule? Code a special case in IE? Any such incident would cause irrevocable damage with any government/enterprise and push them to abandon the platform entirely. As you say, it's just absurd.

Let me see... how about not supporting HTML5? That would pretty much kill all of the new Google products for 70% of the PC market... And it's not immediately grounds for an anti-trust lawsuit.

Post by pgebhard » Wed, Jul 15, 2009, 6:43 PM UTC

jojhbugbt wrote: post #15

kalid wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not even the PR implications, but just the security/technical. How does an OS vendor block access to a website? Deny it in the hosts file? Add a default firewall rule? Code a special case in IE? Any such incident would cause irrevocable damage with any government/enterprise and push them to abandon the platform entirely. As you say, it's just absurd.

Like a computer where you can only buy apps from a single site owned by the maker and only connect to the net through a single service provider - no consumer would ever go for that.

That's a bit of an overly obscured reference to Apple.

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