Comments on: More Google, more of the time http://www.synergy-sponsorship.com/blog/20100119/more-google-more-of-the-time/ The Sponsor's Consultancy Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:43:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Scott Garrett http://www.synergy-sponsorship.com/blog/20100119/more-google-more-of-the-time/comment-page-1/#comment-758 Scott Garrett Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:04:55 +0000 http://www.synergy-sponsorship.com/blog/?p=3010#comment-758 Chrome is OK. Of course it's light years ahead of IE, but I can beat IE as a user experience by walking around my local library so that's not saying much. The reason why - with Safari and Firefox also installed on my Mac, I keep Safari as my default browser, is because I care about looks. Chrome ain't the prettiest, and until it is, it won't usurp Safari's place in my heart. Of course, the real test comes when you try to use a new browser to perform certain tasks using add-ons, plug-ins and peripherals built for use on the web: not all of them can. Example: I have Garmin sat nav (for my bicycle). I love it. Great gadget. But if I want to upload routes to my website, to share with my mates, I can only use Firefox or IE. Garmin does not make plug-ins for Safari or Chrome and I guess, looking at your market share figs, that it's not economical to do so. How many other companies feel the same? Is this why IE remains dominant (as well as, of course, the painful ignorance of the masses)? When Chrome works with my Garmin, then it will have arrived... Chrome is OK. Of course it’s light years ahead of IE, but I can beat IE as a user experience by walking around my local library so that’s not saying much. The reason why – with Safari and Firefox also installed on my Mac, I keep Safari as my default browser, is because I care about looks. Chrome ain’t the prettiest, and until it is, it won’t usurp Safari’s place in my heart.

Of course, the real test comes when you try to use a new browser to perform certain tasks using add-ons, plug-ins and peripherals built for use on the web: not all of them can. Example: I have Garmin sat nav (for my bicycle). I love it. Great gadget. But if I want to upload routes to my website, to share with my mates, I can only use Firefox or IE. Garmin does not make plug-ins for Safari or Chrome and I guess, looking at your market share figs, that it’s not economical to do so. How many other companies feel the same? Is this why IE remains dominant (as well as, of course, the painful ignorance of the masses)?

When Chrome works with my Garmin, then it will have arrived…

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