Android's native browser unseats Opera Mobile as the most used in the world

It is truly amazing how Google is changing the entire internet and technology landscape in recent years. It seems that this year Chrome It will overtake Internet Explorer as the world's most widely used PC browser. And right now, on mobile browsers, the native application of Android just passed Opera Mobile as the most used on the planet. The data is offered by StatCounter, a company located in Ireland, founded in 1999, which is dedicated precisely to web analytics. On January, Opera still owned the roost in the mobile browser market. But in in February has lost its hegemony, becoming the native browser operating system Android in the most used. But the thing Don "t stay there. To continue there, Safari de iPhone It will also overtake Opera. Which means that both companies are developing their native applications so well that users see no need to replace them.

It is worth highlighting a detail about these data. The new Google browser has not been available to Ice Cream Sandwich. All devices with Android 4.0 They no longer have the old browser pre-installed, but the new version of chrome for mobiles. Over a period of time, we may see the numbers for the old internet surfer drop again, until we transition to the new one.

If we focus on numbers, the 22,67% of users opt for the browser Android, while the staunch of Opera they stay in the 21,7%closely followed by the growing number of users of the web browser. iPhonea 21,06%. Far away is the one that served to connect to the web in Symbian, and more has fallen that of BlackBerry, which seems not to raise its head since iPhone replaced it in the business sector, and Android in the youth market, an advantage of having devices of all ranges with the same operating system.