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Right, for the code base it is good - from Apple's PoV however they lost market-share in a billions-of-dollars market


I've never seen any indication that Apple valued their "market share" from Chrome using WebKit in any way, and the people actually working on WebKit for Apple were mostly happy about the fork.


Just as a data point, Google paid Mozilla 300 million dollars two years ago to be the default search provider in Firefox. This is definitely a market.




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