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The majority of Android phones (including all Samsung phones) have other browsers preinstalled.


This graph is telling:

http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/worldw...

Subtract the iOS market share from the overall base, and is at 75% market share of remainder. The only strong competitor is UC Browser at 13.3%. This is an AliBaba product localized to mainland China. Remove that from the global market, and we end up with ~90% share for chrome in the rest of the world. That's antitrust territory.


Restricting to just Europe: http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/europe...

IEMobile is ahead of Firefox!


Well, on my LOS+microG device I use Firefox, but my apps use SystemView and that's basically Chrome (which skews these stats). By using Firefox I use two different rendering engines, increasing my attack surface.


I wonder what the user/developer experience would be on such a device. Worse than Samsung would be my guess (and that's a disaster).


Explain? I haven't used Samsung since SGS3, a flagship device which only got updates for 1 year.


If other browsers are also included by default, it is not antitrust to include that browser by default too. The only reason the share of Chrome would be interesting for antitrust would be if that share were leveraged to promote a product in another market, which nobody is claiming.


Actually that's exactly what the claim is: That Chrome being mandatorily included and set as default is used to promote Google Search unfairly. That's directly in the EU's statement.


No, the claim is that they're using Android's dominant position to push Google search and other Google products. Chrome's default in itself is not an issue.


Also: WebDRM.


> This is an AliBaba product localized to mainland China.

Nope, massively popular in India.


Didn't know that, that's interesting. Is it because low-end phones that are popular in India are largely Chinese-origin vendors?


Replace "browser" with "app store" and you arrive where the parent comment was going.


The majority of Android phones sold (including Samsung) preinstall other app stores too.


interesting. which app stores are typically installed?



IIRC, these browsers are generally impossible or next to impossible to get rid of.





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