According to Greg Keizer’s article at ComputerWorld not only is Google Chrome usage not growing but it’s now shrinking. “At the end of its third week of availability, Google Inc.‘s Chrome accounted for 0.77% of the browsers that visited the 40,000 sites tracked by Net Applications, down from a 0.85% share the week before.”
Chrome had a high just above 1% but appears to be disappearing just and quickly as it first appeared. The various theories on Chrome’s ultimate goal are really interesting and people seem to have put a lot of thought into them, but none of them work if no one uses Chrome. It was an interesting idea and I think the concept was strong but it might just be too early for the cloud-only model Chrome was trying to push.
Steven J. Vaughn-Nicols wrote a great article on why he thinks Chrome just isn’t ready… yet. And Royal Pingdom asked why does it seem like all Google products are always in beta? Support costs are a huge impact. Google escapes the support costs, and the PR nightmare of releasing an otherwise buggy product by calling it “beta”. Google, we’re calling you out. You’re one of the big boys now. Stop pushing beta software and push product! Real, RTM-worthy product.
