On mobile, where the majority of the world’s content is now consumed, Google and Facebook own eight of the top 10 apps, with apps devouring 87% of our time spent on smartphones and tablets, according to new comScore data ( Figure A).įor that remaining 13% of time spent on the mobile web, Google and Apple offer the two dominant browsers.
SEE: Mobile Cross Platform Development Bundle (TechRepublic Academy) You are most definitely the product As Python guru Matt Harrison put it, “Vendors control the default browser which 99.9% of people use.” Those vendors are happy to sell us access to information. Our world is increasingly mediated by the internet, and that internet has just a few gatekeepers, collecting tolls as we browse. It offers a few other services, like Pocket, but largely gets ignored. I also can’t remember a time when we needed it more.īack in 2008 I could say, with some semblance of sanity, that “The Web’s platform is Firefox.” Nearly 10 years later, Mozilla’s Firefox is almost a rounding error in desktop market share, and nonexistent in mobile browser market share. I can’t remember the last time I cared about Mozilla. For more info, visit our Terms of Use page. This may influence how and where their products appear on our site, but vendors cannot pay to influence the content of our reviews. We may be compensated by vendors who appear on this page through methods such as affiliate links or sponsored partnerships. Mozilla used to be our bulwark against the the closure of the web. Mozilla is desperately needed to save the web, but does it stand a chance?
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