Occam's razor, and my familiarity with the industry, both tell me it's not malic...

		scrollaway on Jan 31, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chrome 89 Beta: advanced hardware interactions, we... Occam's razor, and my familiarity with the industry, both tell me it's not malicious but rather just various shades of incompetence & misaligned incentives that are producing such high amount of "spec churn". But if it were a strategy, "EEE" or "Embrace Extend Extinguish" is not a good term for it. Maybe call it EEEE. "Extend Extend Extend Extend".

In Google’s case it’s perhaps EELIE, embrace, extend, lose interest, extinguish.