AFter reading this post, at first, I thought that consumers get hurt whenever a competitor drops out of a field. But I soon realized that this competitor is AOL. They haven't been a strong competitor in a long time.
I'm sure that somewhere down the line, Internet browsing will take a form vastly different from what we're used to. For example, the iPhone and other handhelds are likely not gonna be supported by IE and even Firefox. The makers of these products have a lot of control on how the products will be connected. And handhelds are the next evolution of the Internet (iPhone, PSP, etc.)
Maybe what we're seeing is one of the big signs of things to come. Some markets such as PC Internet browsing are just not worth it to enter or fight for at this time.
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