The difference for me at least is that I have replaced the default Safari icon (in the dock bar) with Chrome.. something which I did not do with Opera. A friend of mine did too as I noticed today. So it definitely has better chances of sticking with at least the people I know.

(A little OT but right now the Chrome icon it looks ugly as hell. The black just doesn't seem to mix well with green and blue for some reason)

Yeah it's too bad the iOS guidelines don't allow for Chrome's traditional icon. This seems like the best compromise they could come up with to maintain their branding.

Something like this might have worked and fit inside the iOS frame: http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/132/3/1/chrome_11_flu...

That's really nice, if you did that congratulations!

Just Googled for "square chrome icon" and copied a link to the first relevant image I found, hah.

So glad I JB. Because I'm using this.

It's too bad iOS guidelines don't allow for the V8 engine.

So true. iOS users love trying new apps. That doesn't mean that those apps will actually gain a place on the home screen, or even be in use after a week by the majority of those users (that would be a good metric, but hard to check.)

I didn't even download Chrome for iOS, as I don't use any Google services besides Analytics, Adsense, and Places (I switched to DDG for search.) I don't see the upshot of using Chrome for iOS, because I have all my bookmarks in Safari and use Reading List and iCloud (with Instapaper and Evernote bookmarklets.)

Opera is still the top mobile browser worldwide, still used by many on iOS when you want to save bandwidth.