Startups generally don't have the luxury of cash reserves that Apple has. Apple can afford to be patient and release things when they are ready. Startups usually cannot.
Furthermore, no one is lining up outside your stores days in advance to get at your product/service. In all likelihood, a handful of people know and care about your startup.
Great idea for an eBook. As a developer without a design background, it would be really handy to know the basics so I could bootstrap things without having to bring in a real designer early on in a project.
Funny thing is that I'm currently "pair-designing" with a designer. He told me he is actually really happy that there are books like that and frameworks like twitter bootstrap out there: it allows him to start working from higher grounds (logo, branding) and avoids dealing with the very basics.
Yeah. There's also just a huge amount of boilerplate HTML an CSS you need when you start a project, it would be great to be able to leap frog some or all of that.
Yeah, and there's always someone in April who's on pace to hit 80 home runs for the season. That said, I think the trend toward Chrome, and webkit browsers in general, is undeniable.
Linear extrapolation in general is unwise, but with market share it is particularly foolish. I'd bet the opposite, that the gap between the two browsers takes longer than a year to vanish.
In South America, where these stats show Chrome in the lead, the growth seemed to be accelerating up to and beyond the crossover point (the same in the few individual countries where they're leading). What about marketshare particularly should make this unusual or unexpected?
I'd assume some kind of tipping point effect as it becomes "normal" not to run IE and/or to run Chrome that could lead to such acceleration since the barriers to adoption are so low.
Perhaps there's a distribution deal or popular website in South America that requires Chrome to function best (Orkut?). Or perhaps, as you said, it's just a network effect.
