If you’re in iOS, UC is a great way to pop out videos so you can, for example, watch a YouTube video while reading Hacker News.
It also enables you to listen to just about any video in the background, when you switch to other apps.
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
#12Hardly “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?
Most click on "Internet" to go to their browser, so yeah I don't think there's much brand loyalty.
Re: Alibaba’s UC Browser is dominating in Asian markets with lower-end smartphones
#13Hardly “dethroning” Google. UC is for low end feature phones that cannot run any other browser.
Nope, look at some 'low-end phones' of 2017
Leagoo M9 - Android 7.0, 1280x640 IPS 5.5", 4-core MTK6580, 2GB RAM, 16GB ROM, 8MP, WiFi, BT, dual SIM (second slot is universal, SIM card or memory card) - $55
ZTE Axon 7 Mini 4G (Global Version) - Android 6.0, 1920x1080 5.2", octa-core Snapdragon 617, 3GB RAM, 32GB ROM, 8MP+16MP, WiFi, BT, dual SIM - $120
And with Android Go they will run even faster.
Re: Alibaba’s UC Browser is dominating in Asian markets with lower-end smartphones
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
No they won't bcuz UC comes with features that people actually like
-data compression (which also acts as a vpn to access blocked content)
-content feeds
Re: Alibaba’s UC Browser is dominating in Asian markets with lower-end smartphones
#15UC Browser apparently has more mobile usage that Firefox in the US. In 2017, they've clocked in at 1.22% vs Firefox's 0.59%.
Years ago, (~2004) I used to use a desktop version years to get around firewalls at my high school. Nowadays I wonder how the Chinese government uses the traffic data to take the temperature of the US.
[0]: http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/united...
Re: Alibaba’s UC Browser is dominating in Asian markets with lower-end smartphones
#16Never heard of if you run an America-centric website. :) You have to support UC and Qihoo 360 if you have a significant amount of Asia traffic.
Re: Alibaba’s UC Browser is dominating in Asian markets with lower-end smartphones
#17Hardly “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?
UCBrowser will ship preinstalled as system browser on their mid-tier phone too (MTK, 6" 18:9, 3-4GB RAM, $100-$150)
Re: Alibaba’s UC Browser is dominating in Asian markets with lower-end smartphones
#18Hardly “dethroning” Google. UC is for low end feature phones that cannot run any other browser.
Nope, look at some 'low-end phones' of 2017 Leagoo M9 - Android 7.0, 1280x640 IPS 5.5", 4-core MTK6580, 2GB RAM, 16GB ROM, 8MP, WiFi, BT, dual SIM (second slot is universal, SIM card or memory card) - $55 ZTE Axon 7 Mini 4G (Global Version) - Android 6.0, 1920x1080 5.2", octa-core Snapdragon 617, 3GB RAM, 32GB ROM, 8MP+16MP, WiFi, BT, dual SIM - $120 And with Android Go they will run even faster.
It's amazing that we can get portable Linux devices with specs like that for so little money these days. It's a shame that Mediatek doesn't respect the GPL so hackability is low otherwise there would be so many prototype/IOT/research uses for a device like this!
Re: Alibaba’s UC Browser is dominating in Asian markets with lower-end smartphones
#19If you’re in iOS, UC is a great way to pop out videos so you can, for example, watch a YouTube video while reading Hacker News. It also enables you to listen to just about any video in the background, when you switch to other apps.
Sounds handy! Can anyone speak to how it treats privacy?
Re: Alibaba’s UC Browser is dominating in Asian markets with lower-end smartphones
#20Is there a non-paywalled link?