Ask HN: Why is the browser battle so important?
Why is the browser battle so important? Why are Google, Apple, Mozilla, Opera and Microsoft investing so much into it? It is offered as a free product.
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A lot of it has to do with search revenue. For example, Google pays big bucks to be the start page for FireFox (and they used to for Opera as well). Microsoft wants every browser to open to Bing.
Brilliant marketing tools
Licensing and legal saving
Influence
he who controls the browser controls the browsing of the internet