Very interesting. I can attest to how Chrome is dominating everything that I do. Firefox is still there but for me there's no compelling use case to abandon Chrome.
Stephanie -- This was thoughtful. As a former owner of Apple products, they set a very high bar for a curated, walled garden experience. Theirs is a difficult model to replicate.
It is! And I don't think Mozilla should replicate a walled garden, I love their open-source model - but Apple's model of building innovation step by step, with each product spring-boarding on the prior one, is inspiring. Their turnaround was also such a great example of how to break out of a reinforcing loop. Path-changing is hard, but I love looking at successes to see which levers they pushed or pulled to change tracks.
I fear that Google, as now a mature company is migrating toward the Apple model and that will be great for Google but bad for a lot of us. The pending Pixel watches will be the first major product they migrate to Android only. They will likely see greater margins. It will also become inordinately more difficult for Apple to innovate by hardware replication and improvement based upon the wide open Android marketplace. They have already been applying exclusivity of certain innovations in Android to the Pixel line of products. They will likely do this with proprietary chip technology via Tensor coupled with round-trip to the Google Cloud. This model is not replicatable and hence not easily imitated.
I wanted to read about Pixel and Tensor before replying, sorry for the delay! I guess it's no surprise that behemoths are maneuvering walled gardens against each other.
The original web 1.0 had the most interoperable protocols overall, I think. Web 2.0 was way easier to use but more centralized and less interoperable. I'd like to see a move toward greater decentralization from here, but interoperability might be even more important. (Walled gardens appear to still be an issue in more-decentralized web3 - for example, which protocols are interoperable with which other protocols.)
Very interesting. I can attest to how Chrome is dominating everything that I do. Firefox is still there but for me there's no compelling use case to abandon Chrome.
That's the key - compelling use case! I remember the first time I used tabs in a browser and it was, "Wow!" Been a while.
Stephanie -- This was thoughtful. As a former owner of Apple products, they set a very high bar for a curated, walled garden experience. Theirs is a difficult model to replicate.
It is! And I don't think Mozilla should replicate a walled garden, I love their open-source model - but Apple's model of building innovation step by step, with each product spring-boarding on the prior one, is inspiring. Their turnaround was also such a great example of how to break out of a reinforcing loop. Path-changing is hard, but I love looking at successes to see which levers they pushed or pulled to change tracks.
I fear that Google, as now a mature company is migrating toward the Apple model and that will be great for Google but bad for a lot of us. The pending Pixel watches will be the first major product they migrate to Android only. They will likely see greater margins. It will also become inordinately more difficult for Apple to innovate by hardware replication and improvement based upon the wide open Android marketplace. They have already been applying exclusivity of certain innovations in Android to the Pixel line of products. They will likely do this with proprietary chip technology via Tensor coupled with round-trip to the Google Cloud. This model is not replicatable and hence not easily imitated.
I wanted to read about Pixel and Tensor before replying, sorry for the delay! I guess it's no surprise that behemoths are maneuvering walled gardens against each other.
The original web 1.0 had the most interoperable protocols overall, I think. Web 2.0 was way easier to use but more centralized and less interoperable. I'd like to see a move toward greater decentralization from here, but interoperability might be even more important. (Walled gardens appear to still be an issue in more-decentralized web3 - for example, which protocols are interoperable with which other protocols.)
I am going to send an off-thread response as I consider this an intriguing topic but not perhaps to the whole world.