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Devil's Advocate (from an uninformed newbie): What's the benefit of this when no one uses chrome for mobile? All android devices come with "Internet" and all iOS devices come with Mobile Safari. This doesn't help me resolve issues on the browsers that people actually use on mobile devices.

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Android has shipped Chrome as the default browser since Android 4.1, which makes up more than 50% of Android devices.

http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html

Ah, good to know. Thanks

"Internet" is not that good, and if by no one you mean only 100,000,000 - 500,000,000[1] people this really doesn't solve much.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.android.ch...

Right, but it's not uninstallable on many newer devices which also have the proper Android browser too, so these figures will be way off.

I suppose you are referring to devices like the new Nexus 7 that come with Chrome pre-installed. It doesn't have android's native browser and as far as I know it's the only device that ships with Chrome.

Nope, it's basically any device with the Play Store on running Android 4.2 or later.

Chrome being the only browser on Nexus devices has become another reason to avoid Nexus devices, along with the Hangouts as only messaging app and the general lack of storage. It's merely that the alternatives are arguably worse.

The most recent version of Android has Chrome as the standard.

It isn't that helpful a feature at the moment but it is looking towards the future.

also with 4.4 they sort of broke/fixed the aosp browser, so things like text wrap is gone and zoom behavior acts similar to chrome.. almost forcing people to use chrome

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