Good. The better product will win out.
If I was working on the Edgeium team, I would beg the Windows and Bing people to be less heavy-handed. It's a quality product, but the advertising and nudging is souring me.
If I was working on the Edgeium team, I would beg the Windows and Bing people to be less heavy-handed. It's a quality product, but the advertising and nudging is souring me.
The more advertised one will win. Chrome is a joke privacy-wise compared to Firefox, but at the moment the winner is Chrome. Also the target audience is important: to the average Windows user, if Microsoft says Edge is best, then Edge is best, and Mozilla has no resources to fight back on equal terms since it's Microsoft deciding what runs on their operating system and what their users read or watch.
Sure some people actually remove facebook, but the overwhelming majority of people are voting that they prefer the services offered, even with the tradeoffs. Unfortunate, but seems likely to me.
From my experience with family, coworkers, friends, and neighbors, the vast majority of people today need a web browser. That's it.
You might also be discounting people who use their machines to play games with. Although I hear good things about SteamOS, that might push the needle.
> Switching costs!
However, different Windows versions now have not-insignificant switching costs as well. So while I agree that it is a concern, Windows users must deal with switching costs every three to five years whereas KDE users have had to pay those costs exactly once (KDE 3 -> 4) during the almost two decades that I've been using KDE.