As much as @slightlylate may complain, iOS safari is literally the only reason at this point that "this site only works in chrome" is not now the default for the web.
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Is the argument that users would switch to a better engine/browser if allowed, so it's a good thing they're not?
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Replying to @slightlylate @ohunt
If the price of a more capable browser on iOS is a substantial increase in sites that refuse to work in any other browser than Chrome, then yes, it’s a good thing they’re not.
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Šime Vidas Retweeted Šime Vidas
And if I may use this opportunity, a reminder that my
#AskChrome question has not been answered yet. I would appreciate it if people from Chrome team shared their thoughts.https://twitter.com/simevidas/status/1201539916485804038 …Šime Vidas added,
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Let me try to answer then! May be a bit of a thread. First, the easy, comforting, and misleading way to look at the numbers is to lump mobile into desktop, e.g. the image you pointed to which comes from this data set:https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#monthly-200901-201911 …
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Here's mobile:https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/worldwide#monthly-200901-201911 …
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What neither of these views tell you is *how successful the web is*. That is, they show you the slicing of the pie, not how much the pie is growing/shrinking. We have other data sources (which aren't public) the analyze this. And the picture is *terrifying*.
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On desktop, the web continues to gain ever-more use. More and more use-cases can be handled in the web (thanks to expanded capabilities) and more time is being spent there (as a fraction of time on device). It's the exact opposite on mobile.
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I went into this in a recent talk: https://vimeo.com/364402896 The mobile web only performs ~adequately for wealthy users. Between that and a decade+ of training users to find experiences in app stores (where the web was excluded; still is on iOS), time spent % is *low and falling*
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Which brings us back to share. How do we think about it? As a last chance to perhaps turn this around and avert ecosystem collapse. It won't matter who "wins" if the web ceases to be a meaningful part of user's lives.
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And yes, it's as bad as "ecosystem collapse" sounds.
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Eventually, if things keep going the way they are, it won't make sense for *anyone* to invest in improving the web. Legacy platforms don't evaporate into this air, of course, but they also stop changing. They stop addressing new needs. They slip out of the relevance loop.
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