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Comment: Re:StatCounter overstates importance of sample siz (Score 1) 160

by muxxa on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @07:06AM (#40383421) Attached to: StatCounter Blasts Microsoft's Claim About IE Still Being the Number 1 Browser

StatCounter is Freemium while NetApps is paid only; meaning that NetApps have a bias towards for-profit sites?

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Comment: Link to Stats (Score 5, Informative) 325

by muxxa on Monday March 22, 2010 @09:32AM (#31568036) Attached to: IE Not Faring Well In the EU Ballot

IE has a natural downward trend anyway, so the cited percentage drops should be taken in context:

Germany showed a slight increase:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-DE-monthly-200902-201003

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Comment: Re:StatCounter etc (Score 1) 350

by muxxa on Wednesday November 04, 2009 @11:45AM (#29980250) Attached to: Firefox Passes IE6 In Browser Share

Not so, you can break down the StatCounter stats by country: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-CN-monthly-200810-200911 http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-RU-monthly-200810-200911

Comment: An alternate dataset to NetApplications (Score 1) 409

by muxxa on Tuesday May 05, 2009 @09:25AM (#27830473) Attached to: The Problem With Estimating Linux Desktop Market Share

http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-daily-20080701-20090505 You can break it down by country or region

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Comment: Virtuous loops (Score 1) 709

by muxxa on Tuesday June 07, 2005 @07:04AM (#12745340) Attached to: Extending Pop Music Copyrights

"It sees the move as a way of generating more money for the record industry, which would use it to discover new talent."

The self-reinforcing loop between capital and talent would be more efficient as a self reinforcing loop between consumer and talent. Of course that such a system of direct distribution would obsolate the record companies would violate the #1 tenet of neo-liberalism; More Money for Me!