I think Chrome browser share will continue to grow, but it won't be at Safari's expense. It offers nothing to the average Safari user but promises to replace Firefox completely once the plug-in mania gets started.

I would bet money that as Chrome usage rises, Firefox and MSIE use goes down. MSIE will likely stay stronger too because the reasons behind it's use have less to do with user preference than they do business. Those that are looking for simple and minimal though will likely stay with Safari.

"Overall, Apple is expected to have a "blowout" quarter due to its strength in all major categories of its business, and is expected to beat Wall Street estimates by a fair margin."

This doesn't even make sense. Expected by who? How can apple be expected to beat expectations? That doesn't even make logical sense. If you mean to say that some commentators believe that some other analysts projections are low, that's one thing (which is like saying nothing at all, because its just saying that not everybody agrees on apple). But its stated in this article as if the general consensus on wall street is that apple is expected to beat expectations, which is logically impossible.

I think you're correct, but for the wrong reasons. Safari and IE are "default browsers" and people who use them generally use them because it's "just what their computer does". Not to say that Safari isn't a vastly superior browser to IE, but very few people decide to use safari in a positive sense. They just use it because that is the macs default web browser.

I've used both chrome and safari for the PC and mac and I like chrome better for both. Chrome is as simple as it needs to be and can now use add ons to the extent that you need them (unlike IE which has way too much going on and is too difficult to slim down). I like Safari, but I think Chrome offers everything that safari does and a little more.

However, Chrome's real competition is the "choice browser" firefox. People who use firefox use it because they don't like IE or, to a lesser extent, Safari and they actually go out and seek a different browser. Google will undoubtedly leverage the google name and the fact that chrome is probably the better browser into continually cutting into firefox's market share.

To me, that's why chrome's market share will cut into firefox and not really IE or Safari. There will always be a large number of people who are perfectly happy with their default browser and will never even consider other options, so IE and Safari will always have a built in market share (as long as things are structured as they are now).

Finally google will eventually have chrome OS as the default browser on some netbooks, which will also cut into default browser market share, but that's too far down the road to really have any idea of what percentage market share chrome OS and thus chrome browser as the default browser will have.

You don't read the WSJ much, huh? "Expectations" were "set" in the past. Analysts now feel that Apple will exceed those expectations. I don't see how that's "logically impossible."

For example, in Jan. 2009, my parents and I expected me to graduate college. As summer arrived, not only did I graduate, I got a full-time job. My parents and I agree that I exceeded our expectations.

I can't go onto YouTube without getting bet around the place by Chrome adverts. I like Google and all that but this is the first instance where I feel they are going a bit too far. Sort of abusing their power.

I wouldn't mind but I think Chrome is a great browser.

I dont believe this for a second. I can't believe how naive people are if they believe all these surveys. The internet must have 100's of survey results everyday. Show me how you got these numbers, how big was your pool, did the same address use both Sarfari and Chome? Show me the proof.

I tend to disagree with this and I don't think there is any evidence to support the idea that most Safari users are just using it "by default."

Safari has a particular appeal to people who like the Apple's penchant for things to be as minimal and as tasteful as possible. This group is definitely a minority, but still quite large in terms of absolute numbers. It seems to me that there is an easily describe-able niche of people who use Safari on purpose, simply because it's the only one that offers this minimal approach.

Personally, I find most web browsers so hideously overdone, so ugly, and so jazzily laid out, that they are difficult to use. Firefox may be one of the best browsers in the world technically, but one look at it's ugly face and you just know that no real artist had a hand in it's creation and it's hard for a lot of us to get past that.

As long as WebKits share (Safari + Chrome + iPhone + Android + others) keeps rising Im happy

Actually, I have a subscription to the WSJ, and FT for that matter, I have a masters in econ and I work for an investment company. The term expectations and estimations aren't tied to any fixed point. If they're saying that wall street has revised their expectations for Apple's 2010, that's totally different from whatever "apple is expected to beat estimations by a fair margin" is supposed to mean. If what you're saying is what the article implied, then they should state from what period the supposed "estimations" were made. Also, they should state who made the estimations.

Saying "apple is expected to beat wall street's estimations" by itself is meaningless at best and illogical at worst.

AI always tries to walk the line between legitimate industry source and a blog. Statements like the above are reasons why its not really a serious news source, just an aggregator of rumors.

Chrome, before you add on any extensions is just as minimalist as safari, if not more so.