Recently, regulators and rivals are once again wondering whether web browsers, especially Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome, are controlled too tightly.
Safari is the best way to experience the Internet on all your Apple devices. It offers robust customization options, powerful privacy protections, and industry-leading battery life, so you can browse how you want, when you want. And when it comes to speed, it’s the fastest browser in the world.
Miles Kruppa for the Wall Street Journal:
Google and Apple Inc. of Alphabet Inc. together control over 80% of the market via the Chrome and Safari browsers, respectively.
In the UK, the Competition and Markets Authority said in June that it was looking into competition between browser developers on mobile devices as part of an antitrust investigation into Apple and Google.
The Chrome Browser hosts nearly two-thirds of Internet activity worldwide and is a major factor in driving traffic to Google’s lucrative search engine … An early decision by the Google Chrome team to combine URL and slashes Search in one field has helped the browser become a major source of traffic for the search engine, the company’s main source of income.
MacDailyNews takes: Google’s Chrome offers yet another advantage over a Mac, most notably the Intel disabled variety: If you open 3 or more tabs in Chrome, your Mac doubles as a space heater.
Bernstein’s analysts estimated that Google was on track to pay Apple around $ 15 billion last year for the right to have its search engine default in Safari, which was introduced in 2003.
While both Google’s Chrome browser and Apple’s Safari browser have so far escaped the weight of antitrust attention, competitors have recently become more outspoken with lawmakers and regulators about alleged abuses in the market.
The Mozilla Foundation, which developed the Firefox browser, last month bought a full-page ad in the Washington Post to express support for the bill, writing that big tech companies have made it difficult for users to “discover, install. and use Firefox as their browser of choice. ”
MacDailyNews takes: In less than 10 seconds using the Apple App Store app, go to Utilities and find:
Apple’s Safari currently holds 18.82% share of the global web browser market. It is nowhere near a monopoly. Antitrust simply doesn’t apply.
(Google search is a whole other story; the search market cries, and has cried, for real competition to be reintroduced into the market for nearly a decade.)
World market share of web browsers (StatCounter, July 2022):
• Chrome – 65.14%
• Safari – 18.82%
• Edge – 4.11%
• Firefox – 3.3%
• Samsung Internet – 2.95%
• Opera – 2.12%
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