How is Internet being "embraced and extended" by Google feeling like as society contribution?
It has literally turned into ChromeOS, with exception of Safari, and Firefox meagre 3% hardly matter.
How is Internet being "embraced and extended" by Google feeling like as society contribution?
It has literally turned into ChromeOS, with exception of Safari, and Firefox meagre 3% hardly matter.
I definitely think that there's a difference in kind about what Google has done and what Microsoft attempted to do.
Microsoft wanted everyone on MSN instead of the Internet. They bullied their browser to be the only one, and then kept it crippled. They tried to own the scripting language (VBScript) of the Internet.
I'm going to try right now: Oh, looks like I can visit any website I want with Chrome. Or Chromium. Or now IE also using Chromium.
Google is of course still driven by capitalism, not altruism. But when you look at their history they've in the vast majority of cases done the right thing arguably for the wrong reason.
And that's because Google's incentives have been aligned differently. Microsoft earns money from Windows and Windows related services (very broad here, where I include Office). Until Bing, every time someone used the Internet instead of native apps, Microsoft basically lost money. Definitely lost power.
Every time someone spends more time on the Internet, Google earns more money, statistically. So Google, in a complete opposite to Microsoft, has been incentivised to help people get onto the open web.
Yes, after Microsoft's surrender the Chromium market share is too big. And it's a problem. But at least thanks to Apple you cannot make a website that only works on Chrome. Especially since Chrome on iPhone uses WebKit, not Chromium, because of Apple app rules.
Another problem with Google is that some important opensource projects have a large set of maintainers be Google employees. But the alternative is that they… not contribute? Didn't we say that big companies should give back to opensource? But of course they'll work on what they need. Though there will be a large overlap.
It's kind of a first world problem that the open source (apache license) Kubernetes has "too many google employees" as contributors.
During Microsoft's domination, this was not the problem. This was not the problem at all.
What can you not do, or need to special case, with Safari+AWS?
Android, OK there Google asserts control. Not total control (see any Samsung phone), but a lot.