Android accounts for one-quarter of mobile web traffic
Android is mopping up Apple and RIM's declining mobile mindshare in the US, you'll find nothing but corroboration from Quantcast. The analytics firm reckons a full one-quarter of mobile web traffic stateside comes from devices running Google's OS
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So no more IE in Europe huh.
I highly doubt it! Most of the regular users don't eve know what FireFox is and further even don't have a clue why the hell they should bother installing (not even knowing what this term means) a program that allows them to do what they already can! o_O
This is really pure ridiculous BS!
Well they wont be "installing (not even knowing what this term means) a program that allows them to do what they already can!" since there won't be a browser installed yet. So they will be choosing which browser they would like installed. Really who has over chosen IE. it's always just been there.
"Most of the regular users don't eve know what FireFox is"
The important point is that they will very soon know what Firefox is, and that options other than Internet Explorer are available. They might well continue to choose IE, and that's fine (if somewhat mad), but at least they will have made a decision.
I doubt IE won't be installed. But even if so, what does it change? The general consumers will choose IE anyways, because that's the only thing they know and are familiar with.
I know quite a lot of such "consumers" that seem to just be utterly bothered and annoyed by "software choices", they simly stick with the first thing that works for them even if it is IE, OutlookExpress or PhotoViewer (or whatever they call it these days). They couldn't care less about XnView, OpenOffice, FireFox or Thunderbird. They don't even know these exist and what's most interesting, THEY JUST DON'T GIVE A SHIT!
Only EU thinks that those consumers are so much endangered by IE that they have to fine MS billions so that they have spare cash to spend on their EU buerocracy extras and whatever else. The point is, not a single dollar goes to those consumers in danger, MS increases prices of their software in EU to reflect this nonsense and guess what? Consumers are ultimately those who then bitch "why is Windows so expensive here in EU?!?!?!!1111one". You know why? Because EU PROTECTS you from the evil Microsoft and thus you should feel safe and warm inside when this uber-annoying popup window appear each time you run windows (yes, they won't know how to disable it after each start, I bet you) asking you "Do you want our very highly recommended, super feature packed, familiar, fast and generally the best Internet Explorer? Or would you rather download via FTP or preferrably HTTP, this unknown, orange fox thingy and Install it on your primary partition of your primary hard drive?" Then a UAC window will popup a gazillion times so that the user, if not lost already, will finally get pretty pissed off and install IE anyways!
Good job, EU, luv ya!
OK Loocas, hear is the point, right now the consumers you are referring to are may stick with IE because that is what they are used to. Many other consumers who are used to IE and where not aware of the other options, may become curious when they see this "uber-annoying popup window" and decide to try something new or at least do some research, So then fast forward, 5 years and IE will no longer be the only thing people know.
Are you anti-competition?
No, you don't get it edu. You're mixing two groups of consumers here. The first one, the absolute majority I'm talking about simply DON'T GIVE A SHIT about IE or what you think should win this browser war. They don't care!
The absolute minority of those "curious" ones are presumably a bit more skilled PC users that might have heard of this wonderful thing called FireFox and they go and perhaps search for the term on Google. These people are, presumably, also familiar with the installation process ("double clicking a nice icon of a box with a cd-rom on the desktop") and so when they finally manage to download the flaming fox on their desktop and install it, they then decide whether they like what they got or not and thus return to IE.
But EU didn't set on a mission to "protect" the second group, they claim to protect the first, dumbest, simplest, group of users (about 99% of them from my experience), but, WHAT ARE THEY PROTECTING THEM FROM?! These users simply DON'T WANT anything else than IE, why should they? They can view Google, local news and perhaps the more advanced of those read a weather forecast, so WHY THE HELL SHOULD THEY EVER THINK OF INSTALLING A DIFFERENT BROWSER IN THE FIRST PLACE?!
This is the point. I'm all for competition, but I'm not your general user, nor are you, nor is anyone on this blog, but we form about 0.05% of the PC userbase and we don't care about EU or IE or whatever, because we use FF, OpenOffice, know about web standards at least a bit, know about IE secure holes etc... We are PowerUsers, not Users. Nobody gives a shit about us, especially EU, since "we know our way around".