Apple went to war head on and failed. Linux tried “free” but their efforts were unfocused and uncoordinated.

Google took a different tactic. It’s seeded a revolution by handing out weapons of mass destruction to everyday people.

Rather than fight the war itself, Google took the role of “arms dealer” and started giving away weapons of mass destruction for free.

Those weapons?

Gmail, Google Docs, Google Analytics, Google Maps, Adwords and Adsense, Google Voice, Android, the Chrome browser, the Chrome OS…and others.

When you think about it this way…Google isn’t fighting anyone…and Microsoft is literally fighting everyone…very clever.

I never count Microsoft out, but one has to wonder how can they compete when everyday people have such powerful alternatives…or should I say weapons?

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Google: Arms Dealing in Weapons of Mass Destruction

Catching up to myself a bit. Last year I was psyched on Chrome as a browser. Then I found myself in the world of Social Games working for Zynga. Made FarmVille along the way and now with the first long weekend in a long time, I thought I would get back into some of the things I used to do.

What a year it has been. Chrome is now an OS.

Reading back to some of the articles, we could all see it coming.

Can’t wait to catch up on everything.

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What a year this has been; Chrome went from browser to OS.

Looks like the world is jumping on the reports of the Google Chrome browser’s small market share drop over the last week.

The news was the opposite for “The Chrome Voice”.

Here at www.chromebrowser.com, we saw an increase of 4.62% for Chrome.

Sure we’re a small site with a very targeted topic, but the change has been significant. 

Since last week, the numbers actually show an increase for both Chrome and Safari, but a loss for IE, Firefox, Opera, Mozilla and Seamonkey.

Since I last measured on 9/17/08, here’s how things have changed:

• Chrome usage rose from 45.69% to 50.31%
   
• Firefox usage fell from 34.01% to 33.07%
   
• IE usage fell from 15.74% to 12.23%
   
• Safari usage rose from 2.03% to 2.66%
   
• Opera usage fell from 1.52% to 1.41%
   
• Both Mozilla and Seamonkey dropped from 0.51% to 0.16%
   

The 9/23/08 stats for www.chromevoice.com are:

It will be interesting to watch both the trend here at www.chromebrowser.com and the larger trends tracked by others world wide.

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Chrome Browser Shows 4.62% Growth In Market Share on www.chromevoice.com

Reports are coming in that Chrome usage dropped since last week. 

Gregg Keizer writes in Computerworld that users who originally abandoned IE and Firefox are now returning citing Network Applications report that of the 40,000 sites it tracks, this week showed Chrome’s share to be 0.77% of visitors versus last week’s number of 0.85%.

This means 0.08% less Chrome browser visits to the 40k sites.

Doesn’t sound like much to me, but I don’t discount the report. Clearly a huge number of people got excited about Chrome when it first came out and now that they’ve tried it, 10% decided to go back to IE or Firefox.

Another way to look at it is that 90% of the people who tried it during the previous week are still using it now.

It will be interesting to watch the market share as the weeks progress. 

Gregg’s full article is here.

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Chrome Usage: Did 90% of Last Week’s “tire kickers” come back for more?

Thanks to Benjamin Joffe for another great example of Chrome’s speed.

For those who are interested in testing out the speed differences between Chrome and your other browser, I’ve found another variation on the “Wolfenstein” like demo running in Javascript.

It looks a little nicer and even has a “mini-map” to show you where you are in the level.

And yes, for me it runs much better in Chrome than Firefox.

See Ben’s demo here.

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Another cool tech demo to run in Chrome