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Why not just look at market share across all devices? Which makes chrisseaton's point: Firefox sits at 3.26% as opposed to Safari at 18.61%.
by tpush 4y ago
Why not just look at market share across all devices? Which makes chrisseaton's point: Firefox sits at 3.26% as opposed to Safari at 18.61%.
- ianbutler 4y agoBecause mobile and desktop are different markets
- heavyset_go 4y agoBecause all browsers are Safari on the mobile platform that has 60% of market share in the US.
- chrisseaton 4y agoWell yeah that’s a fact that supports the point. Why exclude it?
- ianbutler 4y agoYou literally can’t run a different browser on the device.* If I’ve installed Firefox I’ve installed reskinned Safari. “2.5.6 Apps that browse the web must use the appropriate WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript.” From the App Store guidelines. It’s not a choice thing. *without jailbreaking
- chrisseaton 4y agoYou choose the browser with the device.
- ianbutler 4y agoThat seems like an anti trust action waiting to happen frankly.
- chlorion 4y agoThat is irrelevant though. It sucks that Apple does this but it doesn't actually change the fact that Firefox use is at 3%.
- heavyset_go 4y agoIt affects usage rates of other browsers other than Safari on that platform, because other "browsers" are just limited chrome on top of Safari. The quality of Chrome, Firefox, etc on iOS will be behind the quality of the same browsers on platforms that they're allowed to improve and innovate upon.
- KptMarchewa 4y agoEven 3% of market share could be hundreds of millions of people. Browser market size is extremely large. That's hardly irrelevant. https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity