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Why would anyone not using an Android use Chrome? If you're tech savvy enough to be installing alternate browsers, why choose the one whose parent company actively harvests everyone's data (and which is more bloated than Edge, FF, and Safari)?
Your question assumes that users have a clue. Unsafe assumption.
I expect the clueless ones to use the default, pre-installed browser, which on a computer isn't Chrome.
A lot of computers people buy from box stores are preloaded and configured to use chrome as the default for many years. Newer prebuilt a May no longer do that, but I doubt it.
I would have agreed with you about Edge when it was MS’s own engine. It was lightweight and fast. Even early builds on the Chromium stack were decent. Lately, Edge is more bloated than Chrome! It’s really showing MS’s true colors these days.
Microsoft has always impressed me with their ability to ruin genuinely good products.
I couldn't help but think of this (nearly 20 year old) video in response to that comment. 😁
https://youtu.be/EUXnJraKM3k
I used Edge a bit at work because it feels like Office365 stuff runs better on it, but that might be placebo.
Firefox runs it all just as good!
Because people are lazy to switch. 10 years ago Chrome was a far better browser than anything else & people have their google account filled with their passwords & bookmarks now. Most don't even know how easy it is to migrate all that to Firefox, or that Firefox is actually good since Quantum.
Also why would you use Chrome on Android? On Android at least you can switch to other stuff, unlike on iOS.
I wasn't arguing people on Android should use Chrome, it's just the default browser, so I don't expect most people to replace it.