David Rosenthal: belief

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…The way I heard it was a lot of people are working on Google Gears, which is this browser extension that allows for offline functionality. They’ve built the Google web toolkit to make web application development even more advanced, even more sophisticated. At some point they lost faith that Firefox was going to keep the pace and that Firefox was going to stay as high quality of a browser as they needed it. Of course they had some divergent technical ideas, like different architecture ideas for how a browser should function that we’ll talk about. I think all of these things are true. However, having your own browser when Microsoft does launch Bing, hugely, hugely, hugely important. Imagine if 90% of Google happened on Internet Explorer and all of a sudden Microsoft launches Bing. Right? There’s no amount of money suddenly that you could pay Microsoft where they would keep you as the default search engine. They just want all the traffic to go to Bing. because They now have a great way to monetize.…

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