Earlier, Google announced that Android has seen over 900 million activations. After talking about Android and Google Play for about an hour, the Google I/O keynote shifted to Chrome.
Last year Chrome had 450 million monthly active users. Since then, it has added over 350 million new users in last 12 months.Today, it has over 750 million active users.
Much of the new Chrome use comes through mobile, according to Google’s Sundar Pichai. He also talked up the Chromebooks (coming out from an increasing number of partners) and Chrome OS.
Chrome is the most-used browser worldwide with over 750 million users globally.#io13 #keynote #io13chrome
— Google Developers (@googledevs) May 15, 2013
Google also showed off a new Chrome experiment inspired by The Hobbit.
New Chrome experiment preview inspired by The Hobbit film series, built for the mobile web first. thehobbit.com/middle-earth.#io13 #io13chrome
— Google Developers (@googledevs) May 15, 2013
Big Chrome performance improvements since last I/O: JavaScript improved 24% on desktop, and 57% on mobile.#io13 #keynote #io13chrome
— Google Developers (@googledevs) May 15, 2013