Comment on Chrome increases its overwhelming market share, now over 70%

undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Chozo@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Because 99% of users have never heard of any browsers other than Safari, Edge, Firefox, or Chrome. So they go with what's most familiar to them.

  Ask a hundred random people off the street to name 5 browsers; they won't.

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  • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I think half of those people wouldn’t know what a browser is.

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    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      “Browser, like from the video games?”

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  • undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    What? Google Chrome is never installed by default on macOS and Windows. How would you not know what a browser is if you have to intentionally install it?

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    • Chozo@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      If you ever visit Google, which 99.9999% of internet users will do at some point, you'll eventually be prompted to install Chrome.

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      • undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        How do you install software without knowing what it is? 😭

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