Why Is Everyone So Obsessed with Chrome?(medium.com)
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Why Is Everyone So Obsessed with Chrome?
https://medium.com/macoclock/why-is-everyone-so-obsessed-with-chrome-1e7a39624e31
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If you bother to click over to "os market share" on the same site he links, you'll notice that Safari usage almost exactly matches iOS/MacOS combined usage.
So we're all in a bubble, including this author, where we worry about what browser we use. The vast majority of people just use the default browser on their OS.
I have no opinion of this guy's use of Safari, and I hope he has continued success and fun using it. But for me and mine, I'll continue to use whatever works best (that being un-Googled Chromium on Linux).
So we're all in a bubble, including this author, where we worry about what browser we use. The vast majority of people just use the default browser on their OS.
I have no opinion of this guy's use of Safari, and I hope he has continued success and fun using it. But for me and mine, I'll continue to use whatever works best (that being un-Googled Chromium on Linux).
For those new to the browser wars, Chrome beat Microsoft's entrenched browser monopoly by adroitly leading on quality and security. Also, I think there might be something to the modern computer user having more awareness that "cross-platform" might matter even if they don't personally use 3 platforms every day.
Don't forget extremely aggressive marketing and paying affiliates for installs. For a long time, all of the shady adware installers were installing Chrome behind your back.
Agreed, Google is no saint. But compared to the dirty tricks campaign Microsoft waged overtly through leveraging OS bugs against competitors and threatening competitors (read: what the DOJ sued them over) Google was the relatively clean choice. Hindsight makes them look way worse, of course.
The world isn't obsessed with safari because they don't have apple products.