Chrome beats IE market share. It showed that over the weekend Chrome is the most used browser, while on a weekday, people go back to work and use IE. This has two implications:
1) Companies are still locked into some solutions like OWA and sharepoint because of which users still use IE at work.
2) Users have started distinguishing between browsers and at home they prefer using Chrome.<p>For companies with most of their clients using their own personal computers (like for us), we could expect a fair share of Chrome over IE and hence the following:
1) Our QA should have a major focus on testing with these browsers.
2) Architecture needs to focus on this stat. as a guiding principle while deciding future architecture.<p>Another interesting statistics is the second screenshot with the Mobile Operating systems.
1) The highest share of internet browsers still run a Nokia Symbian phone. Most likely these are traffic from developing countries, where monetizing from these clients is extremely difficult.
2) iPhone and Android are tied and very close.<p>So focusing only on iPhone could be a mistake. We need to open up to focusing on Android just as much.
It's great to see (from the peaks in usage of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera on weekends) that people are choosing more progressive browsers over IE for home use. It'd also be neat to see the breakdown of IE <i>versions</i> in this data too.<p>Microsoft sure do have their work cut out for them!
As much as I like Chrome, the increase in Chrome's share also means more people will be using Google by default.. and their search dominance scares me. Consumer web startups can literally die overnight if Google penalizes them(google "TeachStreet"), or if their Adwords account got banned for some unknown reason.
12 years ago I suggested that IE would lose its crown to a web browser developed by a web site using an open source cross platform rendering engine developed by Apple.<p>And everyone said I was nuts.
In my opinion, successfully marketing a seamlessly up-to-date browser is the 3rd greatest thing Google has done for the world (behind search and gmail)
How many people <i>choose</i> Chrome? I bought a Lenovo laptop recently and Google Chrome was pre-installed as the default browser. And although the desktop shortcut icon was the familiar one, it was renamed "Internet Browser."