The Decline of IE and Firefox
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The Decline of IE and Firefox
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Re: The Decline of IE and Firefox
#2One question I have in mind: Will Safari be able to keep up, or will Apple become complacent because they're satisfied with being the best option for OS X? (Which they can achieve by being insiders on that OS, and not by being more awesome.)
Re: The Decline of IE and Firefox
#3One question I have in mind: Will Safari be able to keep up, or will Apple become complacent because they're satisfied with being the best option for OS X? (Which they can achieve by being insiders on that OS, and not by being more awesome.)
I only skimmed at the charts in the article, but I'd assume the underlying reason highlighted by OP is the only one that makes sense, i.e. that old Windows boxes get replaced by tablets (usually, but not necessarily, iPads), on top of smartphone sales; just less frequently for geeky users (who are more likely to be using FF or Chrome than IE).
If so, "best" option for OSX seems somewhat moot: what really counts is being the "only" option on iOS. (Technically, you can install another Webkit-based powered browser on an iDevice, but I'd wager hardly anyone does so because http links in apps would probably keep opening Safari anyway.)
Re: The Decline of IE and Firefox
#4All those graphs should start the y-axis with 0%, starting at 5% or 10% makes the decline/increase seem bigger than it really is.
Re: The Decline of IE and Firefox
#5if i get this correctly these stats are from one site (diffen.com) - why is this relevant for anything?
Re: The Decline of IE and Firefox
#6One question I have in mind: Will Safari be able to keep up, or will Apple become complacent because they're satisfied with being the best option for OS X? (Which they can achieve by being insiders on that OS, and not by being more awesome.)
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Re: The Decline of IE and Firefox
#7if i get this correctly these stats are from one site (diffen.com) - why is this relevant for anything?
I would give it at least a little bit of credibility just based on the fact that it's a consumer-oriented site with a wider audience than just us technical people. But I agree it's just one data point among many.
Which brings up an interesting question, since we're on a site for startup founders: what kind of traffic patterns do you guys see on your websites?
Re: The Decline of IE and Firefox
#8One question I have in mind: Will Safari be able to keep up, or will Apple become complacent because they're satisfied with being the best option for OS X? (Which they can achieve by being insiders on that OS, and not by being more awesome.)
I don't know on OS X but on iOS while Mobile Safari is quite good, it lacks one mandatory feature: a way to install extensions or at least a way to install Adblock.
I find myself using less and less my iPad (last generation with A7) for a single reason: because how much web sites are actually cluttered with pop-ups, ad banners, and modal sheets masking contents. This has a serious impact on loading times and on usability, this is maddening.
This is becoming a serious problem aggravated by the fact developers of these websites / ad networks know very well there is actually no mainstream way of bypassing this garbage on iOS and thus they abuse their situation. Apple needs to do something to restore a balance. I won't hold my breadth though, but long term as it drives more people nuts I think it will become a serious issue.
Re: The Decline of IE and Firefox
#9The stats are dramatically different for an enterprise focused website. As a counterexample, we show for our site:
IE (all versions) is 52% of visits in the last month. IE 8.0 is 25% of IE traffic
For the same month in 2012, IE traffic was 62% of all visits, so we are showing drops as well, but not to the extent we can ignore the needs of our IE customers.
In short, know your customer.
I don't like IE, but we like our customers a lot more than I dislike IE.
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#10Are this unique visits or aggregate hits?
beating Windows? How about showing us the real GA stats for Chrome OS? I help run a very popular health site and ChromeOS comes in below Windows Phone.
>Windoze
Okay, my bad for reading this 'article'.