My first reaction to Google IO is laughter. Throwing everything but the kitchen sink at the #AI buzz word--especially the Android part of the presentation. That wall paper thing was the worst 7 minutes I've ever spent and that I'll never get back.
The responsible AI discussion would have gone far better if Google hadn't fired Timnet Gebru and Margaret Mitchell.
Overall, there just was no strategy. #AIEverything seems scattered and reactive.
So I'd need #Edge for Microsoft services and #Chrome for Google services. I want to use neither of those. All of a sudden, #browser wars have a completely different definition.
Poll: Do you think the Web browser war is over (FYI, as of Feb/2023, Chrome has 79.7%, ME-Edge, 8.6%, Mozilla Firefox 4.8%, and Apple Safari has a 3.9% market share)? Please share for a broad reach. TIA.
@nixCraft I have long since decided for myself that one-for-all doesn't (and will never again) cut it.
Personally I'm a devoted Firefox user and just about all my daily work is done with it. I will not, on principle, use any M$ browser ever again unless forced at gunpoint.
On the few occasions where Firefox just doesn't work right, I'm now using Brave (Chromium engine but without Google spying on me).
I think ratio is about 97% Firefox and 3% Brave. #BrowserWar
I don't think people appreciate the role that #OperaSoftware played in fostering the #OpenWeb and #IndieWeb during the first #browserWar (when the #OperaBrowser was still built on their proprietary #Presto engine), and a fortiori the role it had in their demise (when they switched to being “just another #WebKit/#Blink skin”), despite their browser never even reaching a 3% market share.
I'm sure people have different ideas about what does it mean to support the #openWeb. I think first and foremost it means allowing users (on both sides of the connection) to use the protocols and file formats of their choice. Every time a browser fails to implement (or worse decides to remove) support for a standard protocol or file format, it's failing the open web. Half-assing implementation of web standards was basically #Microsoft's staple behavior during the first #browserWar.