Missed reply-all. again. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jeremy Dunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Oct 6, 2005 7:11 AM Subject: Re: [delicious-discuss] Flock, "the New Browser on the Block, " integrating del.icio.us To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 10/6/05, Matthew Weymar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frankly, I don't understand why. I mean, how many people use del.icio.us > today vs. what's the size of Flock's target market?... And how hard is it to > clone del.icio.us?... What's Flock's target market? Perhaps it's not supposed to be a browser for everybody? ... > Notwithstanding Firefox's success, it's hard for me > - again, knowing as little as I know - to imagine Flock succeeding. I mean, > Firefox's success does seem to suggest that incumbent browsers are at least > somewhat vulnerable; but it seems to me like Firefox's development model is > part of its advantage - relative to how I (not knowing) assume Flock, as a > commercial entity, is going about it. Perhaps success is making the users its designed for, perhaps 1% of all users, really happy. I'm always surprised when "success" is equated to "dominating the market". A little segmentation in the browser market will be good. Since they're using the Gecko engine, it shouldn't cause too much headache for site authors. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@del.icio.us http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
