Chrome for iOS accounts for 0.01 percent of browser usage on iOS last month.
Net Applications' latest statistics see iOS' Safari dominate the top spot in mobile browser usage. Meanwhile, Google's Chrome fails to make its mark on the leader board.
Chrome for iOS was released back in June but the browser accounted for just 0.01 percent of browser usage on the platform in November. On Android, it stood at 4.03 percent, and in the overall mobile market it settled for 1.14 percent of usage. Apple's Safari continues to dominate the market with 61.5 percent of usage. Android's internal browser claimed second place with 26.1 percent of usage in November, representing an increase from 16.4 percent in 2011.
The former No. 2, Opera Mini, saw its share decrease from 20.1 percent in November 2011 to 7.0 percent last month. The browser has remained popular on older-generation handsets but has yet to make a successful transition onto the current generation of smartphones.
Chrome's slow growth on Android devices is due to the fact that products have to be running version 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) or later to be compatible. Android 4.0 has thus far been installed on 25.8 percent of Android-powered devices.
Mobile browsing, which includes smartphones and tablets, is now responsible for 10.4 percent of all browser usage. Personal computers accounted for 89.3 percent of browser usage in November. Internet Explorer continued its lead with 54.8 percent of usage, while Firefox settled for second place with a 20.4 percent share. Google saw Chrome's share decrease to 17.2 percent, while Safari and Opera have a 5.3 percent and 1.7 percent share, respectively.
How many more studies from various companies have to be done before the haters realize what's going on here?
This doesn't seem possible. The iphone's screen is too small to be selected as the primary connection to the internet. Therefore, flawed logic dictates these people also have an Android tablet or PC.
They include tablets, so that also includes the Ipad. It's not uncommon to find houses that only has Ipads/tablets in the house, and not a single PC.
It seems to me like this Zak guy is just a douchy Apple fanboy actively searching for any sort of biased information to prove the "superiority" of his cult.
Pathetic.
/stupid court laws
While your sentence wasn't all that clear I think I was able to decipher what you meant:
"What about suing Apple for installing Safari as the default browser and not letting the user choose which one to use?"
Oh they are going to need a lot more studies before you get past the blind hatred on this website.
I think these statistics are BS the origin of them was saying that android is 74% market share and yet they only looked at US for shopping on mobile US is not 74% android. There are too many holes.
Bull. Every single person I know with an iPhone or iPad also owns a computer, most of them Windows PC's.
NDC released their data for Black Friday today. Android tablets saw a 177% increase from last year, but average price went from $219 to $151. Imagine that, the average price for an Android tablet is $151.
All this data points to the same conclusion. For every higher end Android tablet or phone sold there are a bunch of low-end devices that people don't even use. Today there are numerous Android phones available in the US with tiny 320x240 screens running Android 2.3. You think those users browse the Internet?
I don't know why Android users seem to think everyone owns a GS3 or similar device. The minority of Android devices sold are low end phones that people use as feature phones.
How many more studies from various companies have to be done before the haters realize what's going on here?
It took me a while to figure out what's going on. Net Applications normalizes its web stats for unique visitors. If someone visits a website 30x in a month (once a day), they only count as one visitor - exactly the same as someone who visits a website once a month. So roughly 2.5x as many iOS users browse the web as Android users (down from 4x).
The picture looks very different if you don't normalize for unique visitors. Statcounter draws its stats from 3 million websites (vs. about 40,000 for Net Applications), and does not normalize for unique visitors. They count raw number of website visits.
http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_browser-ww-monthly-201111-201211
Android passed iOS back around the beginning of the year and has been steadily pulling ahead. In other words, despite having only about 1/3rd the number of users browsing the web as iOS, that smaller number of Android users do more web browsing than all iOS users combined.
So what's going on is that the iOS users are the kind who'll occasionally browse the web on their phone or tablet. A large portion of Android users don't browse the web at all, but the small portion who do do it a lot. So much that they do more browsing than all iOS users combined. So most of your heavy power users and people using their devices as an alternative to a computer are on Android. Most of your luddite users who just want a smartphone for the non-web features are on Android. iOS is stuck in between with mostly luddite users who occasionally browse the web.