Ben Gilbert: belief

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…The people who are going to go home for Thanksgiving in a couple of months and install it on all their family’s computers and say you need to stop using Internet Explorer right now for all of these reasons Ben, that you just listed, probably security being number one amongst them. This is actually was me back in the day, like I’m going to go home, I’m going to install Chrome on my parents’ computers so that they don’t get hacked and lose their financial information, et cetera. Within 18 months they got 40 million users. Then let’s see, they launched it in 2008. By 2010 they had 70 million users then 2012 they had 200 million users. Actually what happened is it destroyed Firefox’s market share and I think the launch of Chrome and the peak of Firefox are right around the same time. After that, then it really started eating away at Internet Explorers market share. Today, aside from mostly iPhones but Apple devices running Safari, it is the browser. To say it worked is like the understatement of the century. It totally liberates Google from Internet Explorer and Microsoft. When Chrome launched in 2008, Internet Explorer had almost 70% market share of browsers and Firefox had most of the rest. Two years later, like you said, Chrome had passed 100 million users by 2012, so four years after launch. Chrome and Internet Explorer are now tied for market share with about 30% each. Internet Explorer has gone from 70% down to 30% and this is both Chrome on the desktop side, but you’re now also well into the rise of mobile. Apple’s mobile Safari is now becoming huge and Google’s Android that we’re going to talk about in a sec is becoming huge. Two years after that, in 2014, Chrome is now the clear leader with 40% market share. Internet Explorer is down to 15%. It’s over. Internet Explorer is basically dead at this point and today it truly is dead.…

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