Opera released some interesting information today – it has reached 100 million users of its browsing sofware worldwide. Now, while that number is comparatively tiny (see the graph after the jump) it does come with an additional piece of very interesting info: an entire 50% of that audience is now made up of mobile browsers.
See that? That’s Opera’s total market share as of March this year. It’s not really all that big. But check out this graph of mobile browser usage from the same time period from statcounter:
A ha! Now we see a different picture. Opera is dominating mobile browser usage (it’s the browser I use on my Nexus) – and the numbers of mobile and desktop browsers it has are now equal. 50 million people are browsing on both platforms.
What we think?
According to Opera, its year on year growth from 2009 to 2010 was 30%. I would very like to see how what percentage of that growth was seen on mobile, and what was seen on desktop. I think it would be eye opening.
I think it’ll down by this year.
After bolt performance and UC Browser now going to globaly, opera mini should
fall this year.
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