Yahoo to Launch "Chrome Killer" Tonight
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The executives of this company that decided to become a patent troll should go hang themselves, or at least quit their jobs and save some semblance of self-respect.
And I would have ZERO respect for any employee who runs from a company just because its dying. Those are the last kind people I would hire, because those are the classic cases of what Zed Shaw describes are the kind of people who work for successful companies, and not to work to make the company successful.
Rats are first ones to run from a sinking ship. And employees who generally leave first during the times of crisis are generally people who have no qualities to be war time leaders, who can steer and motivate their teams in difficult times. I would never trust such people with any kind of work that is important.
When I see such people, I often wonder what are they actually worth? If its for money and nothing else, what is the point in really hiring such people for important work? How can they even be trusted when to handle responsibilities in times of crisis, which forces them to quit? Its easy to continue work when things are normal in a successful flow. But its take a lot more heart and character to last through tough and difficult times.
When I see people who want to join Google, or Facebook or <anything> just because its successful, and somebody else has already done the base work to make the company successful. I see people who just like to be part of somebody else's success without contributing nothing much to it.
But a chrome killer? I doubt it. To kill chrome you'd need a far more compelling use case.
To me the biggest problem on the web right now is there's too much to read. In fact there's an Amazon killer here too. It's never been so easy to own a lot of books but it's getting harder and harder to read them.
There is a ton to read on the web right now. The current solution is to use a service like Instapaper, Readability, or Pocket that saves articles and renders them in a pleasurable format to read later. If you want that built into the browser, look no further than Safari which introduced "Reading List" in version 5.0 (the new version in Mountain Lion has offline reading as well). Opera has also announced they will have a feature like this in their next major release.
There's always room for disruption. Firefox used customizability and standards compliance to disrupt IE's market. A few short years later Chrome used speed to disrupt IE and Firefox's market to become the most used browser in he world. Who will be next? I don't know, but I'm skeptical that Yahoo is the company who will do it.
I expressed myself badly. The act of reading has never been so easy I agree.
What I meant was when was the last time you finished a book? Or just got something meaningful out of a book? How about when you bought a book and never even started it?
The problem being there's an oversupply of excellent books all just a download away but never enough time to read them.
This is a problem we should be solving.
I finish a few books per month. My parents manage to read a couple books per week (and managed it when I was a good deal younger and they were both working 40+ hour weeks).
Read on the bus. Read on the can. Read before going to bed. There's plenty of time for reading, even if you've got an otherwise busy and active life.
Edit: Looks like it exists as a plugin for Firefox and Chrome, based on my testing with Opera...
Edit2:
Chrome Extension
Firefox Extension
Safari Extension
Also, the Axis logo looks nearly identical to Adobe's, apart from the colour.
Really? I thought it was a (successful) attempt at building a good browser that addressed the needs of a wide variety of users. I didn't realize it was out to kill anything. That just seems barbaric.
it only took six years for it to sink in, i guess.
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html dir="ltr" lang="en-US">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">
<meta property="og:title" content="Yahoo! Axis" />
<meta property="og:type" content="product" />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://axis.yahoo.com" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://l.yimg.com/mk/micro/img/axis-icon64.png" />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Yahoo! Axis" />
<meta property="fb:admins" content="100000203733930" />
<title>Yahoo! Axis</title>
<body></body>
</html>http://techland.time.com/2012/05/23/yahoos-axis-visual-searc...
I can understand not supporting Linux at launch (but not forever). I can't understand only targeting iOS and then publicly saying you're not even planning on doing Android. Just that you're "contemplating" it.
Don't really see Yahoo! being able to execute on this sort of thing though. I haven't seen anything really awesome from them for years.
Like others I found the headline amusing because it doesn't seem like a credible strategy to 'attack' Google by replacing their browser.
I have no iDevices so no idea what it does.
Come to think of it, I'll probably just ignore it if it causes me any issues.
You've been warned Yahoo!
Yahoo has no mission, they have crazy micro departments and no clear focus for picking winners / goals.
Not that I expect this to in any way be good.
Nah, that was a giveaway it was irony wasn't it?
It's launch.co dumb headline.
By putting in what are effectively iGoogle, Chrome Sync and Google Instant/Suggest in a new Webkit fork?
Good luck with that project. Never mind the awful name. I think a bigger market share would prefer Yahoo! Allies over Yahoo! Axis.
And the logo looks like something Saul Bass would have done for an agricultural concern in 1978.
Edit: It's a browser extension. Well, absolutely no one will use it especially now.
Who can possibly take this company seriously anymore?
On your computer, axis is a plugin that easily works with
your favorite browser. As you can see, Axis is at the
bottom of your screen and stays with you as you browse the
web.
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