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		lmm on Dec 8, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or wit... The faster javascript runtime was what made it a success IMO.

acheron on Dec 8, 2023 [–]

The leveraging their search monopoly to push it and paying other software to sneak it into installs is what made it a success.

lmm on Dec 10, 2023 | [–]

Nah. Safari did plenty of monopoly abuse and sneaking into installs, but still never got big on Windows. At some point the user experience does matter.

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