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Chrome because every time you visit google.com in a non-Chrome browser, it'll blast you with an ad to download Chrome.

Maps because by the time Chrome has pressured you into logging into your Google Account(TM), you've already drank the Kool-Aid (and/or they're pushing it via Google search rich results).

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Fair points, I don't really have any data to counter that, but doubt you do either. At the end it can all be shown to be interconnected, whether good products are driving more adoption or just being default is ensuring the cycle continues, I'm not sure google understands it or is too scared to find out and so pays out.

One other thing I'll add is that Chrome doesn't advertise itself on safari (when browsing google.com) on an IOS device, at least all my current attempts to have it do that have failed.

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