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Interesting trend, based on Flurry analytics :

“…only 10% of the time spent on mobile is spent in the browser, down from 14% a year ago. The rest of the time, 90%, is spent in apps.”

So if you're on your phone, you're probably playing games or using some other native app, but not the web browser.

Does make me wonder whether average folk (especially younger people) have any love for the web, or if it's just this functional, sometimes-adequate thing they use when there's nothing better/easier.

There's a (sorta) counterpoint to this article from Morgan Stanley saying that for the "top 50 mobile properties" their web traffic (measured in visitors, I believe) is increasing faster than their app traffic. Not sure I agree agree with their optimistic conclusion, but, maybe. I feel that there are probably good (obvious) reasons, based on typical usage, for why most people hit Zillow or Yahoo Answers of WebMD in their browser. I dunno if I'd use that stat to conclude that the browser is in a position of strength…

Link (PDF) : http://linkback.morganstanley.com/web/sendlink/webapp/f/e490...

Aren't plentiful, unrequested ads for games an integral part of Microsoft's XBox systems? I don't remember hearing too much outrage about those. Is that a different situation somehow?

Do we have web developers here working on (non-hobby) sites who spend resources optimizing for Chrome, even when there will never be an advantage for iOS users (and a fair number of Mac+Safari users)? Or, on the other side, any developers who would like to use service workers (and many other features) but who can't justify doing it until Safari gets its act together?

Sad that this is necessary, but glad someone did it. There are AWS services listed here which — when explained this way — I realize I might want to take advantage of.

Very handsome visualization. I'm looking forward to the follow-up on how this was put together, especially the front-end.