Chrome beats IE market share. It showed that over the weekend Chrome is the most used browser, while on a weekday, people go back to work and use IE. This has two implications:
1) Companies are still locked into some solutions like OWA and sharepoint because of which users still use IE at work.
2) Users have started distinguishing between browsers and at home they prefer using Chrome.
For companies with most of their clients using their own personal computers (like for us), we could expect a fair share of Chrome over IE and hence the following:
1) Our QA should have a major focus on testing with these browsers.
2) Architecture needs to focus on this stat. as a guiding principle while deciding future architecture.
Another interesting statistics is the second screenshot with the Mobile Operating systems.
1) The highest share of internet browsers still run a Nokia Symbian phone. Most likely these are traffic from developing countries, where monetizing from these clients is extremely difficult.
2) iPhone and Android are tied and very close.
So focusing only on iPhone could be a mistake. We need to open up to focusing on Android just as much.