WebKit is the most popular mobile browser in the world. I alluded to this a bit in my article yesterday, but here are several reasons I think the chart above is misleading:

The breakdown

The first, most obvious, reaction I have is: The iPod Touch and the iPhone have the exact same browser. So already, “Mobile Safari” is the most popular browser in the world – My friend Hans was even kind enough to demonstrate. And what about Android? Android’s default browser has been notorious for not being quite as smooth as the iPhone’s, but generally, the two are kept quite consistent. In fact, even BlackBerry, since BB6, has used WebKit, and even that is pretty on par with the others. They all even use the same browser prefix, -webkit-.

But then what about Opera? It sure seem fortunate that there’s only one version of Opera out there, except…

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