Hey it's just struck me that WebKit will soon be by far the most popular browser engine on the planet. cool. great for developers, great for everyone
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iPhone with 28% of U.S. Smartphone Marketshare for Q4 2007
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You two are missing the fact that PALM IS A WINDOWS MOBILE DEVICE PRODUCER. I assume the 21% includes Palm as well. Or the analyst is an idiot for not doing so... sorry Im too lazy to actually loook at the article.
Palm also sells versions of all of its models running PalmOS FrankenGarnet instead of WM.
So it seems perfectly reasonable to me that its WM business might be lumped into the 21%, and its POS business would be the separate 9%, right?
Looks promising with Nokia using a version in their S60 phones it should be the most prevalent mobile browser. Nokia's purchase of Trolltech is also a clear statement of intent.
Not sure if it will crack the desktop/notebook market though - for one thing it would need to be fully usable on Windows based units so we'll need to see how getwebkit and its browser, Swift, perform.
Would point out though that the WebKit we're talking about is the open source KHTML based development stuff, not Apple's own version (which is just used in Safari).
Android as well by the looks of it... http://code.google.com/android/reference/android/webkit/package-summary.html
That's some formidable players.
Openwave may disagree with that statement. Webkit may have a chance after it has shipped on a billion products.
Do you think it has legs though, with the transition over to smartphones? I dont think so personally.
Openwave supply a microbrowser though, not a fully blown portable web browser and does not at present offer the same development opportunities as WebKit.
In other words they represent the past, not the future.
Until smartphones outsell normal phones Openwave is still very relevant. If all the smartphone sold in the world (2007) only make up 10% of the global market, how can anyone say that Webkit is the future? More people are more likely to use Openwave based on sheer numbers.
ComputerWorld Article said:
What percentage are actually using the internet already with smartphones though? They may make up a small % in installed browsers, but I bet the number of pages views by webkit on mobile devices is a way higher % because they are actually useable.
Wont be long until smartphones rule the waves entirely.
I think you're mixing apples and oranges. Sure, Openwave may be used on simple WAP enabled handsets but the demand for fully functional web access will increase and customers will expect features we see on smartphones now on mass market units. Openware realise this which is why they've diversified so much - the browser is just one product.
