[ethbr0]

Chrome adding features is spray and pray monopoly.

I.e. once you pass a certain market share and have a larger dev team, wasting your competitor's time by maintaining a high feature addition pace

I'm not saying they aren't good and useful features... to someone. But the net result is that if Google adds more features, quickly, and they're adopted on the web, competitors have to spend more money keeping up, and Chrome becomes more dominant.

So when adding features is a strategic advantage, why would you limit the features you add?

[sircastor]

I don’t think it’s so malicious. I think they just see a feature they’d like in the browser, and add it.

Google appears to be built on the idea of creating a feature or a service, sharing it, making some excitement, and then moving on to the next thing. I think a lot of these concepts are just engineers making things because they can get sign off on it.

[luckylion]

> I think they just see a feature they’d like in the browser, and add it.

I'm not sure. Their official policy is that almost everything should be an add-on. Even things like "don't let random sites install search engines into my browser" should not be a setting, but should be a plugin that works around the browser to make it happen.