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That's not the whole story. IE was innovative (albeit through embrace and extend) until they won and stagnated.

IE could stagnate since they bundled it with their OS, meaning people on an old OS used the old IE meaning IE6 lived on for over a decade. Chrome is dominant since people download it and people receive free updates, so the situation isn't comparable there either.

The situation when every webdev was forced to support IE6 would be like if developers today had to support Chrome from 2011.

Chrome is bundled with Android (billions of devices) and when you install a lot of software on Windows like antivirus they bundle Chrome unless you opt-out.

Not the same but pretty close.

Weird I never see chrome preinstalled. It's always a generic "internet" app

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