Canonical is doing the same thing Microsoft is doing with Edge - using its dominant position to push its other products and force out competition, and to lock users (and potentially developers) into its own ecosystem.
Edge is chromium. If anything, it is MS providing an alternative to Chrome. Personally? I like having a browser that is not associated with my google account. Because sometimes you don’t want to have to do the twelve activation steps for a porn site every time you want to rub one out and having a different browser that nobody uses that you can keep a few cookies active in.
And considering Google already HAS that dominance and more or less have defined the ecosystem (to the point that reddit’s WYSIWYG was actively broken in Firefox for months, if not years)… that is a horrible example.
For future reference: A better argument is to reference chrome and the google assistant on an Android. Or siri and safari on an iphone.
Saying that Edge is Chromium is like saying that Manjaro is Arch or diamond is just coal. They’re related, but there’s significant material difference.
When it was introduced in Windows 10, Edge had an immediate and massive surge in its adoption rate. That wasn’t natural growth based on the application’s merits – it was simply a result of Edge being present in new installs.
Canonical is doing the same thing Microsoft is doing with Edge - using its dominant position to push its other products and force out competition, and to lock users (and potentially developers) into its own ecosystem.
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Edge is chromium. If anything, it is MS providing an alternative to Chrome. Personally? I like having a browser that is not associated with my google account. Because sometimes you don’t want to have to do the twelve activation steps for a porn site every time you want to rub one out and having a different browser that nobody uses that you can keep a few cookies active in.
And considering Google already HAS that dominance and more or less have defined the ecosystem (to the point that reddit’s WYSIWYG was actively broken in Firefox for months, if not years)… that is a horrible example.
For future reference: A better argument is to reference chrome and the google assistant on an Android. Or siri and safari on an iphone.
Saying that Edge is Chromium is like saying that Manjaro is Arch or diamond is just coal. They’re related, but there’s significant material difference.
When it was introduced in Windows 10, Edge had an immediate and massive surge in its adoption rate. That wasn’t natural growth based on the application’s merits – it was simply a result of Edge being present in new installs.