The past year has seen a great success for Google. With Chrome’s market share reaching 9.98%, over 100% increase since January 2010 when they had only 4.63% market share.
However this was not good news for IE, losing over 5% of their market share over the course of the year.
Google Android OS has also see a significant Rise in new users of the Smart phone OS. In the US over the past 6 months, over 40% of new smart phone users choosing Android OS over iOS or Blackberry OS phones. However iOS is still the most popular phone OS with 28% overall market share Android OS is close behind with 25% overall market share.
With the release of Chrome OS and their Netbook the Cr-48, Google is looking to have another very prosperous year in 2011.