| > Ah, that explains why ActiveX took over the web and why I'm forced to read HN on IE. /s It did take over the web, for long enough to kill Netscape. Then they stopped caring because Netscape was already dead. > I'm guessing you are way too young to have experienced it, because the history of Office was nothing like that. You're denying that Microsoft caused intentional problems for companies making competing products on Microsoft operating systems? > Again, I'm guessing you didn't actually live through that era. I did. Hell, I even wrote Java desktop apps for a living in the late 90s. Microsoft did absolutely nothing to prevent Java from taking over the desktop; Sun managed to accomplish that all on their own. For Java to pose a threat to Windows it had to be a large enough proportion of software to allow people to switch away from Windows. To succeed they only needed to keep it below that threshold, not keep anyone from developing any Java applications at all. > You can talk about "attempt" all you want, but there are still zero examples of EEE being successful. Explain Internet Explorer's market share circa 2004. > "Gmail is a free email service provided by Google. As of 2019, it had 1.5 billion active users worldwide." - Wikipedia So a number of users larger than the population of the United States is to be disregarded because one other provider's is bigger? now their competitors are only the likes of Google and Facebook who get where they are by leveraging their own dominant market positions in other markets. > Spam fighting requires a massive engineering team. The problem is completely the other way around. Receiving spam is a minor inconvenience. The biggest problem with running a small email server is that messages you send are marked as spam by large email providers even when they're not. |