Google Chrome Invades Apple’s iPhone

Google’s popular Chrome browser will be available on Apple’s iPhone and iPad, putting an end Safari’s iOS monopoly.

Owners of an iPhone or iPad have been forced to use Apple’s Safari browser, but with the release of Google’s Chrome, that monopoly is over.

“People have been asking to use Chrome on the iPhone,” Chrome product management director Brian Rakowski said.

“We figured why stop there, that we would launch Chrome for the iPad too.”

Apple customers are already familiar with the workings of Safari’s browser, but Google’s Chrome isn’t unarmed, bringing with it supreme cloud synchronisation. You could be browsing the internet on a PC, pick up a smartphone and then continue browsing from where you left off.

“Chrome was built for a better Web,” Chrome’s senior vice president, Sundar Pichai, said.

“We want to make sure Chrome acts like a layer to work seamlessly across all your devices,” he continued. “No other browser is doing this.”

Forrester analyst Frank Gilette believes Chrome on iOS is just another way for Google to tap into people’s internet habits.

“Google wants to be in as many places as their customers are,” Gilette said. “Google is making it so that no matter what device an individual picks up, their stuff and what they were doing (at Google previously) is right there.”

Chrome’s numbers will only go up following the release of Google’s Jelly Bean. The new version of Android defaults to the Chrome browser, and at present 1 million Android devices are being activated daily.

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Source: AFP