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by lmm 922 days ago
The faster javascript runtime was what made it a success IMO.
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acheron 921 days ago
The leveraging their search monopoly to push it and paying other software to sneak it into installs is what made it a success.
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lmm 919 days ago
Nah. Safari did plenty of monopoly abuse and sneaking into installs, but still never got big on Windows. At some point the user experience does matter.
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