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Re:Chrome breaks the Web by dmitriid on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @10:34AM (#15644192)
> Chrome is at around 60% of desktop user agents, which is obviously significant but nothing on the scale of what IE was in the 90s. What's more, Chrome's market share plummets massively when you take other devices into account.

Yeah. Where other devices are mostly Android phones running Google's fork of Webkit. I.e., Chrome

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Re:Chrome breaks the Web by laumars on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @12:47PM (#15645645)
I don't think it's as clear cut as that. You'll have iOS devices and a few Windows Phones too. Plus on Android it's pretty common (albeit mostly among power users) to install custom browsers like mobile ports of Firefox. Then you have other devices like games consoles. Things get pretty fragmented pretty quickly once you start investigating the "other devices" rabbit hole.

However that all said, when it comes to product support, I've found product owners generally only care about Blink (Chrome / whatever) on Android and Safari on iOS. So there's usually little interest in all the other random browser + platform combinations seen in "other devices".

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