I bought a mac book pro once because I was getting into graphic design and bought into the hype that mac was the way to go even after being a windows user for 10 years at the time.
But…I still had to integrate with windows networks for administration work, had to use windows only applications for work, use windows for the bulk of my games…
Obviously I ended up dual booting with windows for a while, but in the end I just stopped using the mac os.
Sure, just ignore the context I provided and substitute it for your own, doesn’t change they were the market maker and the primary development platform for web with IE, I know this because I’ve probably been a developer longer than you’ve been alive, and had to create work arounds for compatability with netscape for those 8 years I mentioned.
What do you mean the competitors didn’t have market share, in '98 netscape was 41.5% of all browsers to IE’s 48.3%. You don’t even know what you’re talking about.
Your idealistic hard on with Microsoft’ s tactics doesn’t change the reality that they became market leader, or that they were the ones using that influence to drive standards. Saying the standards weren’t known is also bullshit because we were developing on those standards. So yes, Microsoft was market leader and Microsoft was calling the shots for website development standards, because they had market share whether you like how they got there or not, it doesn’t change this objective fact.
Funny how you want to engage in part of a conversation and then instead of wanting to hear a rebuttal you just want me to go away so you can think happy ignorant thoughts. Why did you bother responding?
Yes, everything you said is correct, ipso facto Microsoft won and was setting the standards at the time.
The competitors still had significant market share and thus their obstinance to follow the leader lead to a large portion of users that had to be catered to by web developers for compatibility due to corporate requirements for access to these market shares.
Thus because these competitors weren’t the key demographic, in the context of a developer, they were an additional burden due to the severe lack of uniform standards between major platforms.
Ahh the old Nutscrape Aggrivator. Refused to update with Microsoft standards and spent the next 8 years being a pain in the ass for website compatibility.
It’s called trust but verify. Without proof you’re just talking shit and wasting everyone’s time and effort. But you know that because you’re disingenuous, not stupid, right?
How stupid a person is doesn’t change how correct an objectively correct statement is irrelevant of if you “trust them as a source”. Just like how smart you are doesn’t change that you’ve made an objectively incorrect statement. Fox news can still give you the correct time of day even if you wouldn’t respect their opinion on how hot it is.
It’s possible to do both, I consume plenty of pirated media simply because it’s unavailable due to pathetic capitalist imposed digital distribution limitations and lack of equitable paid access.
I also consume other pirated media because I wouldn’t spend my resources for access because I don’t yet know the value of the content and won’t pay just for an opportunity to be disappointed, been there enough times to have learned that lesson. I’m happy to spend my time to find out your media sucks, but not my money, because that’s also my time with the addition that I’ve put actual effort into converting it into fungible assets.
I also deliberately pirate media that I would pay for and do understand the value of, both because I can’t always afford to purchase said product from a company making billions of dollars in exploitative corporate profits and because I have no interest in caring about that over my own personal satisfaction in life.
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