2 stories, about the same thing, an hour apart, from the same author - what the hell has happened to this website? Standards are seriously dropping
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Just a point to note, regarding the car analogies, most of the counter-arguements are that no car manufacturer has a 90%+ market share so the car radio doesn't have to have an enforcement
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Let's imagine that one day, maybe after Toyota, GM and Ford complete a vast merger, that there is a single company that does have 90% market share for cars - you think it would be acceptable for the factory pre-fitted radio to not be fitted at all and the dealership to be forced to offer you a choice of radios that come from Hyundai, Mazda, Fiat, Citroen or Volkswagen - and if they do not offer you this choice and you roll out of the dealership with a garden variety radio, the EU can deem it fair to fine manufacturer the equivalet of 50% of the purchase price of the car
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Car radios have intrinsic value, they use radio stations to push advertsing at us the same way websites do
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IE has no intrinsic value and derives no money from advertising - ad revenue come from the search engines you use and the web sites you visit NOT the browser you use - IE derives no money from advertising, lead generation, affiliates, selling data, freemium or royalties
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Firefoxs sole source of income is royalties derived from advertising on search engines, so IE and Firefox do not even compete in the same revenue market - to use the car analogy again the other thing they have in common is they both have 4 wheels, but IE drives on a rally track and Firefox drives the NASCAR circuit