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09-11-2011, 03:56 PM | #1 | ||
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internet browser hysteria?
As with the thread about social networks, please bear with me: I was born during the commie times in Eastern Europe, I had no economy/business class at high school (and when I got to the university we had such "useful" classes such as philosophy), so apparently I'm not ready for the modern world...
...or maybe it's because I think independently? Last spring a media campaign promoting IE9 started in my country, I saw the TV spot (again) yesterday. This only reminded me old questions I never got answers to. 1. Why all this craze about Internet browsers, monopoly et all? Nobody noticed that Windows also came with pre-installed simple text editor (Write/Wordpad) and that's monopolistic move as well? I don't recall any legal battle about that? How about media player, firewall etc. - there are stand-alone paid products for these functions offered by other companies, why no anti-Microsoft-monopoly shows regarding these? 2. Why invest zillions of $ in advertising a supplementary application for your OS that's available for free? Which competes with other browsers, also available for free, like Firefox? Today even Opera has free full version, none of these display, say, ads to generate revenue... so where's the money? Who gets more $ if Firefox takes over the IE - or vice versa? Even before I tried to learn webdesign I hated the fact that we have so many browsers, so many standards... |
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09-11-2011, 04:16 PM | #2 | ||
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And yet, any form of competition is infinitely preferable to monopoly. Look at what happened after Netscape died ... IE stagnated for ages. Not that I'm entirely happy with the way that Firefox is being run currently, and chrome leaves a lot to be desired, but drag me back to IE? Nevar ^^
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09-11-2011, 05:23 PM | #3 | ||
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Of course you probably never used IE since Netscape times, arete.
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09-11-2011, 05:50 PM | #4 | ||
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Guys, I don't want this thread to become another "X browser is better than Y" or "IE suxx" flame war. And I didn't even say that one browser would be the best solution.
Simply answer me why I don't see spots like "use Holy Microsoft Media Player, VLC player is leftist and gay" things, but the whole thing revolves around Internet browsers? |
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09-11-2011, 06:19 PM | #5 | ||
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You see, there is no simple answer, it's complicated, it's even damn complicated.
However in answer to your first post: http://www.technobuffalo.com/interne...on-make-money/ Even if the article doesn't cover everything, it's a good reading. Nowadays things got even more euuuuurhhh .... complicated, yep. Ties and strings all around, think handhelds with internet, tablets, several OSses using .... aaaarrrggghhhh.... ...... yep, it's damn complicated.
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12-11-2011, 02:23 PM | #6 | ||
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That was an interesting read, even if it only touched the tip of the iceberg. Never did, thank you. So it turns out someone did get the idea "if we managed to sue them about internet browser, then why don't we...". I used to consider independent thinking as a virtue, but not anymore. It's a social handicap. People like being dumb sheep, anyone who breaks from the crowd - by not blindly following fads or swallowing all the bullsh*t spit out by the media - gets quickly ostracized. |
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12-11-2011, 02:30 PM | #7 | ||
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Another example how they make money by annoying us:
http://www.google.com/ads/ I'ts a link to google, but they ALL do it. ....even here on AB, in case you hadn't noticed the ads ....
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12-11-2011, 05:45 PM | #8 | ||
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Why would that be wrong for me and not for others? Oh, I forgot. You guys don't like me. I did relinquish my modship only so I could actually say things like this without having the whole site blaming me for "arguing with staffers"... |
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12-11-2011, 06:13 PM | #9 | ||
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I'll have you know I don't dislike you, you smoky buzzard :wub: X3
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14-11-2011, 10:21 AM | #10 | ||
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I used IE only till IE5, I think.
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