Alibaba’s UC Browser is dominating in Asian markets with lower-end smartphones
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Re: Alibaba’s UC Browser is dominating in Asian markets with lower-end smartphones
#2Hardly “dethroning” Google. UC is for low end feature phones that cannot run any other browser.
Re: Alibaba’s UC Browser is dominating in Asian markets with lower-end smartphones
#3Hardly “dethroning” Google. UC is for low end feature phones that cannot run any other browser.
Only speculating, but I would guess that "low end" describes a lot (perhaps even the large majority) of phones in active use in China, India and other Asian countries.
Re: Alibaba’s UC Browser is dominating in Asian markets with lower-end smartphones
#4Hardly “dethroning” Google. UC is for low end feature phones that cannot run any other browser.
Only speculating, but I would guess that "low end" describes a lot (perhaps even the large majority) of phones in active use in China, India and other Asian countries.
Yes, the browser for the next 3 billion people.
Re: Alibaba’s UC Browser is dominating in Asian markets with lower-end smartphones
#5Hardly “dethroning” Google. UC is for low end feature phones that cannot run any other browser.
And when those users upgrade to a mid-tier phone in the future, what browser do you suspect they will adopt?
The thing they are used to, or the thing that is new?
Re: Alibaba’s UC Browser is dominating in Asian markets with lower-end smartphones
#6Hardly “dethroning” Google. UC is for low end feature phones that cannot run any other browser.
I don't think you read the article. :) The article specifically talks about smartphones, not feature phones. It mentions how Chrome is an issue for cheaper smartphones with less storage: "The UC Browser app takes up 31 megabytes of space, compared with Chrome’s 125 megabytes". And aside from a smaller app size, UC also compresses data and blocks ads to reduce data requirements (data tends to be expensive in emerging countries).
Let's face it, Chrome is designed by and for people living in the west, where people have smartphones with lots of storage and typically buy monthly plans with unlimited (or large allowance of) data.
Re: Alibaba’s UC Browser is dominating in Asian markets with lower-end smartphones
#7Hardly “dethroning” Google. UC is for low end feature phones that cannot run any other browser.
And when those users upgrade to a mid-tier phone in the future, what browser do you suspect they will adopt? The thing they are used to, or the thing that is new?
The thing that is installed by default.
Re: Alibaba’s UC Browser is dominating in Asian markets with lower-end smartphones
#8Hardly “dethroning” Google. UC is for low end feature phones that cannot run any other browser.
And when those users upgrade to a mid-tier phone in the future, what browser do you suspect they will adopt? The thing they are used to, or the thing that is new?
The one preinstalled on their phone, as long as it has a text field at the top where they can just type where they want to go. Most people don’t give any thought to these things.
Re: Alibaba’s UC Browser is dominating in Asian markets with lower-end smartphones
#9Google is so preoccupied with diversity, inclusion, and social justice (along with a generally overgrown sense of being "nice") that there's no energy left to actually compete. When you focus on making everyone feel safe, you just encourage mediocrity.
Re: Alibaba’s UC Browser is dominating in Asian markets with lower-end smartphones
#10Hardly “dethroning” Google. UC is for low end feature phones that cannot run any other browser.
I don't think you read the article. :) The article specifically talks about smartphones, not feature phones. It mentions how Chrome is an issue for cheaper smartphones with less storage: "The UC Browser app takes up 31 megabytes of space, compared with Chrome’s 125 megabytes". And aside from a smaller app size, UC also compresses data and blocks ads to reduce data requirements (data tends to be expensive in emerging…
Right but this part...
>giving owner Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. an advantage in the race among technology giants to capture the next generation of internet users
...seems suspect. Most western Chrome users started off with Netscape, Internet Explorer, Safari, etc., and then switched when they got better machines and got tech-savvier and realized it was a better browser.
So just because a browser reaches a user first does not, I think, mean it has "capture"d that "generation".