> talk about moving away
It's just that. All talk. Including the usual empty threats of "don't piss of the technical people".
Meanwhile, they're still logging into Facebook using Chrome on their Windows machines.
It's just that. All talk. Including the usual empty threats of "don't piss of the technical people".
Meanwhile, they're still logging into Facebook using Chrome on their Windows machines.
However when someone says "I am moving away from windows because of X" it never hits the frontpage since most people don't care since they are not on windows.
This is obviously not great quantitative research. But if I go into any co working space or coffee shop where people work on their laptops. I find a lot of people on macs, and all the technical ones are on HN. Whenever I meet technical people with a windows laptop they are never on HN.
I thought this was quite well established that HN is very apple'y, so I'm having a hard to come up with proper data to back this up.
What about you? You think the opposite?
I mostly agree with everything you said.
But I speculate, a good collection of today's "chrome leavers" here already use another browser - and are just adding fuel to the fire.
Or, they're not actually leaving chrome - just threatening, because they care.
Haha you got me! I did leave Chrome (for privacy reason) for Firefox. Not during this big debate, but during a previous one (when Firefox came out with the big Quantum update and it started to perform on the same level as Chrome). Though I haven't stated I would leave today.
It's not a big change like migrating to another country. Most plugins have add ons for all big browser platforms. I do think that you'll see a decent amount of people in this discussion on HN change browser. But for Google this is just a blip in the graph.