Happy 10th Birthday To The Browser Renders The Web

Well that was a quick decade. This week is the 10th birthday of Google Chrome. It is now a browser that most of us turn too, and one that has caused one of the most radical changes on the Internet: the drive towards HTTPs. So if Chrome says jump, the industry jumps. For it’s 10th birthday, Google has released a new user interface. On Apple iOS:

and on Android:

In 2008, we used Internet Explorer (IE) on our Window’s desktops, but, in 2018, we now have fallen out of love with IE, and it’s a world of Chrome, Android, and iOS. Our desktop applications just seem so dated, and it’s too our browsers and our mobile applications that we increasingly turn too. So this is a story of how an application had a virtual monopoly in the market but crashed its market share due to a lack of development, weak innovation, and a poor user experience.

From a base of more than half of the market in 2008, IE has fallen to less than 10%. Even its rebranding with Edge has failed to boost its share…