alt Hacker NewsGoogle's dominance comes from market share not from owning upstream. If a different fork took 90% market share that fork would have the dominance and power.
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latexr • today at 3:03 PM
> If a different fork took 90%
That can only happen if we don’t all focus resources on Blink, which is the point. By definition, we can only have other engines if diversity is a thing.
The problem isn’t specifically Google (though they are a problem), but any one individual company having all the power.
And that market share is maintained by integration with Android and low-key sabotage of others browsers, especially Firefox. Similar to how Microsoft maintained its monopoly decades ago.