Comment by hu3
Their only moat is first-movers advantage. ChatGPT is a popular brand.
But if Google managed to overcome Internet Explorer and Firefox at their peak, I'm sure ChatGPT is just another Tuesday for their marketing team. And OpenAI knows that. I see an infinite spam of OpenAI paid ads in Reddit. They are desperate.
Android phones now come with Gemini. It's hard to compete against this planet scale, free, ad-machine that is Android.
Chrome had the goodwill
And also Chrome would piggyback on Flash Player installer