Trading Google overlords for Apple overlords does not seem like an upgrade.
It's fairly likely that's just PR. They're a US headquartered place, so would have to comply with NSL's (etc) just like every other US company.
And banks and insurances for credit ratings. And for screening companies, that are contracted to evaluate your job application on basis of your purchases, locations and so on
Internet Explorer--------10.83%
Firefox-------------------9.89%
Edge---------------------4.30%
Safari--------------------3.80%
Opera--------------------1.58%
Safari will survive since Apple is their patron. Obviously Internet Explorer is only a lumbering undead husk at this point, and it's pretty shameful that it's still outgunning Firefox by a small amount. Even more sad that it's got over twice as many users as Edge, lol.
I work for a website with around 1.2 billion annual pageviews. Mobile Safari is about 55%, Chrome (mobile & desktop) 35% and everything else gets the leftovers. Samsung browser is growing fast while IE, Edge, macOS Safari and Firefox are rounding errors.
Kindle browser does better than IE. It’s amazing how far and hard it's fallen.
If you include mobile browsers, Safari's market share is closer to 17%, which makes it the #2 most popular:
https://netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?options...