Google Chrome OEM Strategy To Take On IE 290
ruphus13 writes "In an effort to take on IE and make strong headway in its share of the browser market, Google is taking a page out of Microsoft's playbook and working on deals with PC OEMs to include Chrome in their devices. From the article: '[Google] is likely to pursue deals with major original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to put Chrome on their computers and devices. ... If Mozilla could get aggressive about this too, we could see Internet Explorer facing more serious competition than ever. ... Google, much more so than Mozilla, has enough global brand recognition, money, and savvy to make a big deal of this. ... Microsoft wooed Dell, Compaq, HP, Gateway, Acer and many other companies into making its browser the default choice on Windows desktops. Chrome currently has just under one percent market share, according to NetApplications. That number could rise significantly through this effort. Mozilla doesn't have the kind of money required to get the significant deals in this space, but Google definitely does.'"
How about a Page from Firefox: Features. (Score:3, Informative)
How about making it usable first. Let me know when there are plug ins. Specifically Flashblock. No flashblock, no browser.
Re:Will it really matter ? (Score:3, Informative)
If you have switched to what you believe to be a better alternative but other people have not yet, isn't it normal to want to try and improve their situations, as well?
Re:Google may be afraid of Ad Blockers (Score:1, Informative)
you should remember that ad-block does not completely gut Google of revenue - the sponsored links and google checkout links are always the first on their search results page.
people pay a shit load of money to be on the sponsored list, and they make a decent cut from the google checkout links as well.
Re:Will it really matter ? (Score:3, Informative)
Chrome should not be dealing with OEMs to root out IE. It should be Firefox.
I said that. It means I wish it were Firefox in this story on Slashdot instead of Chrome. It doesn't mean that I think Google Chrome should be banned from going near an OEM for negotiations, and it doesn't mean that I think the only option should be Firefox. Is that what this whole thread was about, GigaplexNZ? ;)
Re:Will it really matter ? (Score:3, Informative)
However have you checked Chromes Developers tools imbedded in it. They are comparable (not the same) to firebug. As well many of the other controls only appeal to geeks, or people who for some reason doesn't want to follow web standards created past 1994. I would use Chrome if it was available for the Mac. It is faster then Firefox and a more basic UI
Re:Google may be afraid of Ad Blockers (Score:4, Informative)
I use Ubuntu. I've been using Ubuntu since Edgy (2006) and have Intrepid on 3 computers right now, and Hardy on 2 others. I've installed it many times for myself, and more than a couple times for friends and family. It does not come with an ad blocker by default.
Unless, for some odd reason, you're including Firefox's pop-up blocker as an ad-blocker.
Re:Will it really matter ? (Score:2, Informative)
I have not wavered in my support for clown computing.
History lesson (Score:5, Informative)
Being the "old guy," I'll teach you some history. Netscape was THE browser for the first iteration of Windows 95. NO browser was bundled OR part of the OS, although AOL was often preinstalled. (I'm not sure you'd call that...thing that came with it a browser.) Basically everyone who used a browser ran Netscape (some ran Mosaic).
Then IE 3 came out (like most Microsoft software, versions 1 and 2 were too shoddy for actual use by human beings, even end users).
Microsoft made IE free to "compete" with Netscape. It still wasn't bundled with the OS until Windows 95 OSR 2.1 -- although it was installed along with Office and other MS apps. But you didn't HAVE to have IE on a Win95 system. That started with Windows 98.
Here's the thing: Netscape Navigator was then made free also, and it WAS bundled on many a PC maker's system. It's true Microsoft didn't *woo* anybody -- threats were more like it. Doesn't anybody remember the whole first antitrust thing?
Re:Will it really matter ? (Score:5, Informative)
IE crashes [google.com] - 1,380,000 Results.
Firefox crashes [google.com] - 630,000 Results.
Safari crashes [google.com] - 1,110,000 Results.
What planet are you living on?
Re:Will it really matter ? (Score:2, Informative)
No, they won't. [arstechnica.com]
Re:Will it really matter ? (Score:2, Informative)
Chrome doesn't have adblock, and probably never will. Extensions are king, and firefox has that mindshare.
Chrome is still in beta, and Google has stated that they plan to implement an plug-in API later. It's very likely that many of the major Firefox plug-ins will be ported to Chrome.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_chrome#Extensions [wikipedia.org]
Besides, Chrome was built with stability and performance in mind, not functionality. That's why it doesn't have RSS support (yet).
Re:Will it really matter ? (Score:1, Informative)
Chrome crashes [google.com] - 722,000 Results
Not as stable as Firefox, but coming 2nd while in beta isn't bad...
Re:Will it really matter ? (Score:3, Informative)
Wouldn't it have been easier to just show them the menu item for add-ons, and let them play around a bit?
Industrial by definition (Score:3, Informative)
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Since services like S&P began to define it as an industrial.
The six AAA rated industrial companies are Automatic Data Processing, Exxon Mobil Corporation, General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer Inc and Microsoft. In the early 1980s, there were more than 30 industrial companies with 'AAA' ratings. Microsoft joins select industrial club with S&P's AAA rating [thaindian.com]
S&P defines and tracks the performance of dozens of sub-sectors in the economy: Standard & Poors (S&P) Sector Indexes [incrediblecharts.com]
S&P doesn't care if Spacely Space Sprockets employs only one visible engineer or technician. It doesn't even care what a sprocket is - or does - beyond a general sense of how it is produced and distributed and the role it plays in the economy.
They employ more lawyers than programmers!
More on a janitorial as well. Big Whoop.
Microsoft employs 94,000 people. It owns or leases 677 sites world-wide, 29 million square feet of real estate. It has subsidiaries in every country from A to Z. The programmer is never going to dominate the headcount in an organization that operates on such a scale. Fast Facts About Microsoft [microsoft.com]
How much outsourced programming staff could they have when they employ legal to bully 3rd party hardware companies to develop drivers for their new OS's?
Dear lord, spare me this.
You do not have to bully anyone to produce drivers for the OS that has 90% of your potential market - and Apple has a lock on damn near 10% of what remains.