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[Ari Torhamo]

to, 2009-12-03 kello 19:18 +0000, David Gerard kirjoitti:

> I found this survey interesting:
> 
> http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm
> 
> That's a 1:1000 sampling from a top 5 charity-owned website with no
> interest in any OS vendor, only in serving its readers, worldwide.
> Mac, at 6.45%, does indeed come out a bit more than 4x Linux (1.51%).


The survey is indeed interesting, but again, this is US centric.
Majority of the Wikimedia requests are sent to pages that are written in
English, and the largest group visiting those pages are the people
living in the United States. And as we remember, Macintosh computers are
sold mainly in the USA; there are few countries in the world where
Apple's computer market share exceeds even 2 %, and the USA is the only
large one of them.

Even considering this distortion, 6,45 worldwide percentage for visitors
using Macs seems too large: there simply aren't enough Macs sold. I
wonder if there could be another hidden source of distortion. I have no
idea though what it might be.

Ari