09 October, 2011

Google and Apple are fighting for first place

Chrome browser at the end of the year to become second in popularity only to Internet Explorer, and Apple products ahead of the device based on traffic Andorid. Such data are published Net Applications.

Late last week, analyst firm Net Applications, which deals with the measurement of the Internet market, has published two new studies on the situation on the market in September this year.

According to the company Net Applications, Chrome - Browser production Google - increasing its market share by the end of the year will be the second most popular browser, shifting into third place Firefox. The leader is still Internet Explorer, which owns 54.39% of the market. However, this figure is a record low for Internet Explorer. Firefox and Chrome share at end-September amounted to 22.48% and 16.2% respectively. With more closely followed by Safari (5,02%) and Opera (1,67%). Similar estimates are published and other research companies - according to the Irish StarCounter, since the beginning of this year's market share Chrome rose by 8% (estimates based on the number of users). Net Applications predicted that by March 2012 Chrome will be able to take a fifth of the browser market by number of users.

In addition, Net Applications has published data on the balance of power among the operating systems for portable electronic devices. Surprisingly, in September, the leader in terms of traffic was the operating system iOS from Apple, although the proportion of the overall market higher in Android, which is developing Google. (The number of devices on Android for 48% of the world market, and devices based on iOS - only 19%). According to Net Applications, in September had to iOS 54.65% of all traffic from mobile devices, to platform Java ME - 18,52%, while for Android - a little more than 16%. Net Applications Experts explain this by saying that on iOS work not only smartphones, but also other devices such as iPad, iPod Touch. Devices based on Android - is, by contrast, mostly smartphones, as tablet computers with this operating system have not been able to take a fairly significant market share.

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