Comments on: Mobile Devices and the Browser Wars http://browsing.justdiscourse.com/2008/01/10/mobile-devices-and-the-browser-wars/ A narrative on the future of web browsers and web browsing Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:41:18 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: YAG http://browsing.justdiscourse.com/2008/01/10/mobile-devices-and-the-browser-wars/comment-page-1/#comment-1516 YAG Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:01:07 +0000 http://browsing.justdiscourse.com/2008/01/10/mobile-devices-and-the-browser-wars/#comment-1516 Interesting to read how the browser wars are hottest now on mobile devices. Seems to me that Opera has put a tremendous effort on making mobile their new focus. While IE and FF are tied up with desktops, Opera has marked “everywhere else” as their "niche" market, so they started popping up on cellphones, Playstation, PSP etc… There are some new contenders in this space altogether such as skyfire that are getting top reviews – so the winner could still be a new player altogether. There is no discussion though of what users would find more useful and productive, but rather a convenience argument that people will use what they got on their mobile as a default. This has been true for desktops as well. IE doesn’t hold ~75% market share because it is better – but rather because you get it with windows. Having said that, FF did grow to 25%. Perhaps though the key point is to become a default browser on certain platforms through deals with the platform developers – this way you ARE the default that people get. Interesting to read how the browser wars are hottest now on mobile devices.

Seems to me that Opera has put a tremendous effort on making mobile their new focus. While IE and FF are tied up with desktops, Opera has marked “everywhere else” as their “niche” market, so they started popping up on cellphones, Playstation, PSP etc…

There are some new contenders in this space altogether such as skyfire that are getting top reviews – so the winner could still be a new player altogether.

There is no discussion though of what users would find more useful and productive, but rather a convenience argument that people will use what they got on their mobile as a default. This has been true for desktops as well. IE doesn’t hold ~75% market share because it is better – but rather because you get it with windows. Having said that, FF did grow to 25%. Perhaps though the key point is to become a default browser on certain platforms through deals with the platform developers – this way you ARE the default that people get.

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