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If a browser can top the download chart then the app-downloading population clearly has yet to go anywhere near the demographics of 'normal people'. Makes you
by handelaar 17y ago
If a browser can top the download chart then the app-downloading population clearly has yet to go anywhere near the demographics of 'normal people'.
Makes you wonder briefly just how incredibly large remains the room for changes in platform, share and whatnot in the whole smartphone/mobileOS arena. This little factoid makes it look absolutely vast to me.
- albertzeyer 17y agoWhy? A browser is nowadays one of the most important tools. If I would be able to use only one single application on my system, it would be a browser. And the same is true for almost everyone.
- handelaar 17y agoAnd the browser almost everyone will use is the one that came with the device, not one that almost nobody outside our nerdy circle has ever heard of, and absolutely nobody outside our nerdy circle would have known was released yesterday unless they read sites like the ones we frequent.
- axod 17y agoThe behavior of installing other browsers or god forbid multiple browsers, isn't a mainstream one though.
- powrtoch 17y agoIt's not as mainstream as we all might like, but I think the case of Firefox (over 30% usage share currently) makes it pretty clear that it's more than just tech nerds who care (at least a little) about browser choice.
- endlessvoid94 17y agoI disagree. I think Firefox's success is due to early-adopters and those same early-adopters telling their family and friends to do the same thing.
- powrtoch 17y agoAbsolutely. But word-of-mouth success is still success (God knows there are failed word-of-mouth efforts). The point is that it successfully spread beyond tech circles. Opera hasn't done this yet (at least not in the US, outside of mobile), but there's still hope that it might.
- tomerico 17y agoThe tech population may be the early adopters. Once you are in the top, you are more likely to stay there.