If there is one corner of personal software where competition has always been especially fierce, it is probably this trio: the browser, the dictionary, and the input method.
Competition is what pushes software forward. It drives refinement, forces change, and inevitably decides who stays relevant and who gets left behind.
Take dictionaries. For a long time, some of them could not even be bothered to translate the text buried inside WebKit, and that indifference lasted until newer versions of Youdao Dictionary began to change the picture.
Or look at input methods. Some products remained content without building a truly cross-platform solution. At best, web-based input methods only barely counted as an answer.
Software that stays complacent, that treats obvious shortcomings as acceptable, will eventually be removed by the market without sentiment.
That is why success or failure cannot be judged by the word "innovation" alone. New ideas matter, but so do diligence, follow-through, and the willingness to fix what users have needed all along.