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Exactly. Users have to manually download Chrome yet it has a 70% market share. Changing the search engine on mobile is already easy enough, far easier than inst

by paxys 2y ago

Exactly. Users have to manually download Chrome yet it has a 70% market share. Changing the search engine on mobile is already easy enough, far easier than installing a browser. Google will get a majority of its share back, while Apple will get nothing.

BryantD 2y ago
Google has a strong position in search, and pushes Chrome every time you hit their top level page. Also Chrome is the default on Android, yeah? I don't think you can extrapolate from that market share to determine how likely people are to change browsers.
- creato 2y ago
  The parent's market share claim is for desktop OSes, where Android is irrelevant. It's still far easier to not install chrome than it is to install it: downloading a thing, running the downloaded thing, click through all the dialogs, ignore all of Windows's nags to stick with Edge (which is probably a greater abuse of platform control than advertising on the search page), ...
  - BryantD 2y ago
    Ah, my error -- thank you!
  - nijave 2y ago
    I think a lot of companies switched to pushing Chrome via device management during the later IE days and never switched back. Presumably that's a decent chunk of market
AnthonyMouse 2y ago
> Google will get a majority of its share back, while Apple will get nothing. Then you would have to ask, if people would only switch back to Google anyway, why is Google paying them currently? Depriving Apple of the incentive to develop a competing search engine good enough for people to willingly use.
- adam_arthur 2y ago
  Honestly it's the only logical conclusion. Otherwise the terms of the deal are terrible for Google
willseth 2y ago
Not on iPhone. Chrome has 30% market share.
- paxys 2y ago
  Because Chrome isn't a thing on iPhone. It's Safari webview with a very thin layer of Chrome branding around it. Users have very little incentive to switch. And considering Google search is the default on both, Google doesn't have much of an incentive to push users either.
  - scarface_74 2y ago
    Google doesn’t care about Chromium (the engine) being on iOS. They care most about getting user data from people using Chrome on iOS.
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by paxys 2y ago

BryantD 2y ago

Google has a strong position in search, and pushes Chrome every time you hit their top level page. Also Chrome is the default on Android, yeah? I don't think you can extrapolate from that market share to determine how likely people are to change browsers.

creato 2y ago
The parent's market share claim is for desktop OSes, where Android is irrelevant. It's still far easier to not install chrome than it is to install it: downloading a thing, running the downloaded thing, click through all the dialogs, ignore all of Windows's nags to stick with Edge (which is probably a greater abuse of platform control than advertising on the search page), ...
- BryantD 2y ago
  Ah, my error -- thank you!
- nijave 2y ago
  I think a lot of companies switched to pushing Chrome via device management during the later IE days and never switched back. Presumably that's a decent chunk of market

AnthonyMouse 2y ago

> Google will get a majority of its share back, while Apple will get nothing. Then you would have to ask, if people would only switch back to Google anyway, why is Google paying them currently? Depriving Apple of the incentive to develop a competing search engine good enough for people to willingly use.

adam_arthur 2y ago
Honestly it's the only logical conclusion. Otherwise the terms of the deal are terrible for Google

willseth 2y ago

Not on iPhone. Chrome has 30% market share.

paxys 2y ago
Because Chrome isn't a thing on iPhone. It's Safari webview with a very thin layer of Chrome branding around it. Users have very little incentive to switch. And considering Google search is the default on both, Google doesn't have much of an incentive to push users either.
- scarface_74 2y ago
  Google doesn’t care about Chromium (the engine) being on iOS. They care most about getting user data from people using Chrome on iOS.
- deleted 2y ago
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