| WereKitten said: ^ Once again, I think I made my point already for everything you just said. I won't repeat myself and leave it to the willing reader. I will just comment on this nonsense of yours:
First I dispute that people are in general that informed about browsers, but I explained that yet and brought the experience of someone who has been developing for diverse clients for over ten years, web developing for five. The real nonsense is your last statement "so they aren't the better product". What makes a product better is how it caters to the user's needs, both known and present or eventual and future when it comes to actually using it. If the user is afraid to swap the browser because he thinks his computer will break, or if he doesn't know of a feature other browsers might have -that he would gladly use once he's shown- that has squat to do with the quality of the product. That's just misinformation. You seem to think that brand name and marketing add intrinsic value to an object. They don't, they just add market value ie they make an object more wanted by user X, certainly not a better product for X. Apparently misinformation about competitors does also make a product better in your view. I certainly don't care for a "free" market with your definition of product value and I very much welcome a nudge in the direction of facilitating users in finding out the value of software by trying to use it. |
Untrue.
A better product includes people wanting to use it.
Market Value is important when it coems to best.
Look at Ipods... Ipods are dominantly the most used MP3 player... yet when it comes to performance, they are near bottom of the barrel and always have been. Should the EU commission break up Ipods because they are an "inferior" product that suddenly selling to the masses?
Your just whining because you don't like the browsers most people CHOOSE to use.
Instead you want microsoft to do advertising for their opponents, because you've got a problem with Internet Explorer... and that's just it.
End of story.
If IE was in your estimation a "better product" you wouldn't give a shit.
Your like the average HD snob who complains that everyone is buying the wii... or the kind of music snob who complains the music industry stuff gets bought and nobody buys the poor indy stuff, when the indy stuff is worked on harder and is better.
What makes, or should i say, made IE the better product was simple. It's convient. People care a lot more about "It's there without me having to do anything" then they do "I have to research all this crap."
It'd be like if Mc Donalds was popular because it owned all the offhighway land, and only let Mcdonalds there, forcing other places to have to be off at exits... and the government came in and said that was unfair.
It's... well stupid.
