Google Chrome Now Grabbing Nearly 10% Browser Market Share
While Internet Explorer (IE) still dominates with 59% of the market share, Chrome now accounts for the equivalent of nearly half of all Firefox market share at 23% and nearly double Safari’s market share of 6%. If you divide the marketplace into PC users who are never going to stop using Internet Explorer and Mac® users who are never going to stop using Safari, then that leaves a slice of pie at 36% which gets shared between Firefox, Chrome, and Opera. Despite many Opera upgrades it still lags the marketplace at nearly half Safari’s market share at 3%.
What does this mean to you?
While Firefox and Safari are not ‘operating systems in a browser’, Internet Explorer and Chrome either are or are going to be. If you write or use cloud computing applications, history says that the browser attached to the largest operating system (currently Windows for PCs) will win. Soon the largest operating system will be the Internet itself, the one running inside of the best browser capable of recognizing that—and right now that is Google’s Chrome.
[...] as an open collection of Web services. On December 2, 201o I wrote about how Chrome is an operating system in a browser, because, “Soon the largest operating system will be the Internet itself.” (By the [...]