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Chrome Whizzes Past Safari Market Share
Techtree News Staff, Jan 04, 2010 1745 hrs ISTBrowser wars
We knew this was inevitable and now it has happened. Google's Chrome, now well into its second year of operations, has pipped Apple's Safari browser (based on the same engine, interestingly) to become the third most used browser on the planet after Mozilla's Firefox and Internet Explorer.
The surge in Chrome's market share comes at a time when the first stable Mac version of the browser was unveiled and released for Mac users last month. The current data, made available by web metrics provider Net Applications, states that Chrome now boasts of a 4.63 percent market share as opposed to the 4.46 percent that Safari boasts of. While this might be something for Google to cheer about, what would be imperative for it is to keep the momentum going. As for Apple, all's not down in the dumps. The same metrics provider has also stated that the company's iPhone is continuing its growth surge and has, in fact, registered its biggest jump in the mobile OS marketshare department. On the Desktop front though, the growth us much less spectacular and has Apple saw an increase of just about a percent throughout 2009.
Will Safari be able to claw back in and get back at Chrome in 2010? That would, however, take a concerted effort by the guys at Apple. But then, these are the same folks who gave us the iPhone!
Image Via: TheAppleBlog
The surge in Chrome's market share comes at a time when the first stable Mac version of the browser was unveiled and released for Mac users last month. The current data, made available by web metrics provider Net Applications, states that Chrome now boasts of a 4.63 percent market share as opposed to the 4.46 percent that Safari boasts of. While this might be something for Google to cheer about, what would be imperative for it is to keep the momentum going. As for Apple, all's not down in the dumps. The same metrics provider has also stated that the company's iPhone is continuing its growth surge and has, in fact, registered its biggest jump in the mobile OS marketshare department. On the Desktop front though, the growth us much less spectacular and has Apple saw an increase of just about a percent throughout 2009.
Will Safari be able to claw back in and get back at Chrome in 2010? That would, however, take a concerted effort by the guys at Apple. But then, these are the same folks who gave us the iPhone!
Image Via: TheAppleBlog
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