The web works best when there's a European-style balance of power with actual balance [1]. Microsoft, Apple and Google are like France, UK and Germany. Each of them have their own interests. Microsoft had their own interests when they actually had a native developer ecosystem that was thriving, but now that it's gone they have deprioritized Windows as a business [2], made Windows 10 a data sucking "OS as a service" (that doesn't even have QA people anymore other than beta testers), and is now all in on PWAs for their app story. They are in fact more like Google than ever before. That just leaves Apple as the only opposing source of power.
Mozilla is Poland and is destined to get f*cked as their market share drops and any negotiating leverage they have to get Google TAC money disappears (they're more like Saudi Arabia is to the US, a vassal state, rather than a Great Power).
These are dire times for the web. Only Vestager can save us now.
Mozilla is Poland and is destined to get f*cked as their market share drops and any negotiating leverage they have to get Google TAC money disappears (they're more like Saudi Arabia is to the US, a vassal state, rather than a Great Power).
These are dire times for the web. Only Vestager can save us now.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_balance_of_power
[2] https://stratechery.com/2018/the-end-of-windows/