| DirtyP2002 said: Yeah people told me that Chrome browser would be a serious competition to the Internet Explorer 10 months ago... Market share is now at 1.8%.... WOW... IE is 65.5%, Mozilla 22.51% according to wikipedia. Android Cell phone did not become the next iPhone either.
I think people use google as a great search-engine, but that's about it. |
A few notes from someone who has been in contact with this stuff.
The browser usage is hard to pinpoint because it changes alot depending on the visited sites and the countries, but yes, the Chrome browser is still totally marginal in adoption. Not that it is important, though: the big deal for Google was to be independent and to have a browser they could steer into the directions they needed for their OS and dedicated boxes. They got their very standard compliant browser, now they are developing the rest.
Also
1) in small-medium enterprises there's a growing utilization of Google's storage/search boxes and of their web applications, integrated with gmail
2) Android is not a phone, it is a software platform for mobile devices (something like an OS + development tools). And it's the one that is most rapidly being developed. Basically if you're a smartphone producer, your best options today are Windows Mobile and Android (Nokia's OpenMoko is always under work, we will see if Palm will make a comeback)
So, no, it's not only the search engine, though it could look like that from the outside: Google makes available a quantity of services and software for developers.
