> Data cleary shows that when the platform is open and fair, Chrome is the preferred browser by consumers.
I think this data is somewhat tainted by how many things have been developed and tested thoroughly against Chrome only, resulting in subpar performance or nonfunctionality in other browsers. Rather than users downloading Chrome because that's what they prefer, I suspect a great many do it because that's the most surefire way to avoid bugs and sluggishness in the many front end codebases that are tuned almost exclusively for Chrome.
It's similar to how Netscape suffered because developers increasingly developed against IE only in the 90s. People want the web to "just work".
I think this data is somewhat tainted by how many things have been developed and tested thoroughly against Chrome only, resulting in subpar performance or nonfunctionality in other browsers. Rather than users downloading Chrome because that's what they prefer, I suspect a great many do it because that's the most surefire way to avoid bugs and sluggishness in the many front end codebases that are tuned almost exclusively for Chrome.
It's similar to how Netscape suffered because developers increasingly developed against IE only in the 90s. People want the web to "just work".