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Friday, July 1, 2011

Chrome Hits 20% Marketshare (Report) (GOOG, MSFT)

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Google Chrome now has 20% marketshare in browsers, according to online analytics firm StatCounter, TheNextWeb reports.

This is pretty staggering. Just two years ago, Chrome was at 2.8%.

The gains came at the expense of both Firefox and Internet Explorer, which is now dipping below 50% marketshare.

This shows a few things:

Google's got some great engineers. (We already knew that, but worth repeating);

The browser market is actually an opportunity. People think of the browser as boring, utility software, but if tens of millions of people are willing to switch browsers, it means there's room for a newcomer. And there's opportunity for change and evolution. This is why RockMelt, a startup founded by a bunch of former Netscape rockstars, recently raised $30 million.

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Friday, April 8, 2011

Here's Why iPhone Marketshare Might Be Bigger Than You Think* (AAPL, GOOG)

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Update: We looked into it and the ComScore report is done via survey not ad tracking so this criticism might not apply.

Previously:

Android is thought to be surging past the iPhone in marketshare, but entrepreneur and investor Chris Dixon posted an interesting take on his personal blog.

He spoke with "the CEO of an iphone/android app ... that has had 30+ million downloads", who says that "market share figures from ComScore [et al.] are wildly distorted because they track via things like ads and those are all higher on android since people don't pay for apps there and instead apps are ad supported."

So iPhone marketshare could be higher than reports are saying.

This CEO also says "iPhone users download apps 5:1 over Android users and [their] willingness to buy [is] even higher."

Previously: Apple Zealots Still Going Insane At News That Android--ANDROID!--Has Blown Past iPhone In Market Share →

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Here's Why iPhone Marketshare Might Be Bigger Than You Think* (AAPL, GOOG)

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Here's Why iPhone Marketshare Is Bigger Than You Think (AAPL, GOOG)

steve jobs

Android is thought to be surging past the iPhone in marketshare, but entrepreneur and investor Chris Dixon posted an interesting take on his personal blog.

So iPhone marketshare could be higher than reports are saying.

This CEO also says "iPhone users download apps 5:1 over Android users and [their] willingness to buy [is] even higher."

Previously: Apple Zealots Still Going Insane At News That Android--ANDROID!--Has Blown Past iPhone In Market Share →

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