macOS Big Sur is an attack on Chrome

macOS Big Sur is making good progress towards release in the second public beta being distributed recently. While there are many features of the newest version of Apple’s operating system, one that stands out is the significant improvements to Safari. Safari is Apple’s web browser that comes packaged with macOS and is exclusively available to Apple products. This means iPhones, iPads, and macbooks all come with this application pre-installed with no way to install on non Apple devices. There are, of course, other web browsers to choose: Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Opera to name a few. With all these web browsers competing against each other, how does the competition currently stand?

Browser War: The Current Status

Google Chrome is the most popular web browser in the world, with around 68% of desktop/laptop devices using it to access the internet according to NetMarketShare. Shift over to mobile and that slightly drops down to 63% of people. That is a seriously large amount of people using one browser to navigate the web and gives Google a lot of control over the internet. Where does Apple’s Safari sit in these areas? Safari owns around 4% of the desktop browsing traffic and around 27% of the mobile browsing market. Firefox, who is number 2 in the desktop market only manages a measly 8%. As you can see, Chrome is stomping the competition…