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izacus
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Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for...
The 400B in revenue is there to be paid out to shareholders not to pay for browser development when not needed.
Apple only has a browser team because they need to keep up with parity for their OS.
stephenr
5 months ago
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That logic could be applied to every app team at Apple, or indeed every other publicly traded software company
izacus
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Yep, and it works out that as well. Without competition, they stagnate and lag.
Jensson
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No, because people tend to invest in what generates revenue. If Apple no longer gets billions from Safari most people would stop investing that much in it, so that is likely what is going to happen.
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Apple only has a browser team because they need to keep up with parity for their OS.