Web Browsers Nostradamus, Year 2010
Written by Vygantas Lipskas on February 2, 2009
Ever wondered what would browsers market share look like in the Jan, 2010? Well, using simple moving average trend and drawing a line between it’s easy to check that. So here’s how it would look like if there won’t be any drastic changes, such as “Internet Explorer come back”.
Internet Explorer
55% on Jan, 2010
< 50% on Q2, 2010
Firefox
26% on Jan, 2010
>30% on early Q2, 2010
Safari
10% on Jan, 2010
Google Chrome
2% on Nov, 09
> 3% on Q3, 2010
Opera
0.8% on Jan, 2010
>1% on late Q2/early Q3, 2010
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Oh dear.
How many times are people going to have to tell you that Net Applications are a bunch of liars? Why are you mindlessly repeating their dishonest drivel?
alternatives?
Thats the point! But @sigh is right. Pathetic…
Browser usage varies where you live:
http://www.liveinternet.ru/stat/ru/browsers.html
There are no alternatives. All browser stats are demonstraby false and not representative at all. Net Applications is just particularly bad, or has had particularly bad luck because they were busted red-handed manipulating their numbers. The others haven’t been caught directly yet, although claiming that Chrome has a higher market share than Opera with fewer users(*) is absurd and proves that something is wrong.
*) Google reported 10 million Chrome users and Opera 30. With 1/3 of the # of users, several statistics claimed that Chrome had a higher market share than Opera!
Too bad for opera man. Why don’t they fkin advertise. Most people don’t know that Opera even exists!! Google chrome just came out and they’re already >1% of market. That’s because of Google’s popularity. I hate to say it, but market share’s just a popularity contest.