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The architecture guy at work gave a presentation about our mobile strategy, and all his browser share numbers were either desktop or desktop+mobile. I mean--if Android has over half the mobile market, how does IE have most of the browser market?
I dared ask him about if afterwards (do I want to show up a senior director) and he just nodded and said they were desktop numbers.
So...basically useless?
But it did make me wonder--IE is going to be on the Windows phones, but, like Safari, they're going to be only on that OS. Are they bargaining on people not caring enough to install something else, that something else not being available, or are they offering something Chrome and Opera don't (won't) have?
I guess this is the wrong place to ask how many of y'all don't use the browser that came with your device, huh?
Googling browser market share for mobile devices has a lot of contradictory information. Maybe that's why he didn't.
Poor Dolphin. They're like the Opera of the mobile set.
I tend to use the browser that is built into the phone, both of my iOS and Android devices. There are only so many hours in the day and which browser is most efficient on the mobile OS doesn't make the cut on things to worry about. I figure if I don't really care and I'm a pretty tech savvy person then the average user definitely can't be bothered.
I use safari on my iPad and iPhone. I just downloaded chrome, since that's what I use on my laptop, but haven't gotten it going yet or seen if I like it. Plus I use Firefox on my work and netbook (which I use when I'm home so I don't go here on the work compiter, it's set up next to it).
How so?
They don't seem to come up in many browser discussions. I think (they're usually part of Other.
Opera on all the devices that let me share my bookmarks with the home laptop and desktop. The other I have are in case a page isn't rendering well, I try in it native, Dolpin, Chrome, and Firefox.
Chrome is definitely my second favourite on al platforms, but I haven't looked into nookmark sharing, since I tend to transfer good links to Opera and bookmark them there.
I thought I'd found an Android web clipping solution--Evernote Share (dolphin plugin) is supposed to fix that--in Dolphin, but I'm clearly doing something wrong because mine doesn't work yet.
I use Dolphin. I love it a lot.
I'd use Dolphin more if I could make the Evernote Share addon work. As it is, Opera has al my settings from my desktop and laptop, so it wins.
I use Dolphin on my phone.
