Indeed. If only it weren't stuck with a slow js interpreter.

I jailbroke my phone and installed the Nitrous addon to give all apps access to the Nitro engine. Though, i'll admit it's not an option for everyone.

yes, chrome on iOS is unsable because of this. I'd love to use Chrome more, but even lightweight js sites are tediously slow on chrome/ios

Not just the javascript either, Chrome becomes horrendously slow with week wifi signals where Safari is fine. For some reason only Apple apps can do the 3G/LTE/Wifi request pooling magic that they added in iOS 6.

Unusable?! I've been using Chrome on my iPhone 4 for the past week and I haven't noticed a significant difference.

jailbreak + nitrous. problem solved. :)

Did that for a few weeks, and the Chrome performance boost was nice. I had to jail-unbreak though because stability was horrid for me, with applications constantly crashing :/

iOS is so last decade :)