Yeah, in the end, people will use what they want to use. I’d very much doubt that in the end, it is going to be the profit centre that all the companies hankering for it think it is.
I mean, the eu tried it with browsers. For five years, they got Microsoft to display a browser choice when you install windows. Perhaps hoping that their homegrown browser would be the choice of Europeans.
In the end, the one that benefitted is Google with Chrome. Opera, the original browser that filed the anti-trust case in the first place and Mozilla who joined later, both lost out, and currently only held around 3% and 5% of the market share in the EU.
Yeah, in the end, people will use what they want to use. I’d very much doubt that in the end, it is going to be the profit centre that all the companies hankering for it think it is.
I mean, the eu tried it with browsers. For five years, they got Microsoft to display a browser choice when you install windows. Perhaps hoping that their homegrown browser would be the choice of Europeans.
In the end, the one that benefitted is Google with Chrome. Opera, the original browser that filed the anti-trust case in the first place and Mozilla who joined later, both lost out, and currently only held around 3% and 5% of the market share in the EU.