Yeah, GP is forgetting what the browser landscape looked like in 2008.
IE was awful, and Firefox was…perfectly cromulent. Chrome was so much better than any of the competition.
IE was awful, and Firefox was…perfectly cromulent. Chrome was so much better than any of the competition.
- They found the internet had gotten a new icon and had no idea how it got there. (bundling with popular software)
- They were instructed by google.
That is how chrome came to top. See other comments for more context.
The fact is, browsers aren't a product, they're a platform feature. Users have zero incentive to ever switch from whatever their OS came bundled with, unless you make a massive advertising push. The fact that Google managed to get people to switch to a non-platform browser at all is a shocking achievement.
Would you rather everyone still be using IE? Because that's exactly what would have happened otherwise.