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That's amazing. I'm surprised Asia hasn't even reached twenty million downloads, though.
by jwuphysics 15y ago
That's amazing. I'm surprised Asia hasn't even reached twenty million downloads, though.
- w1ntermute 15y agoAsia has a pretty Microsoft-centric tech culture. India's probably got the most downloads because of the large IT industry there. There's a large population but most don't have access to computers. Compare that to China, where many more people have access to computers, but the Firefox 4 download rate is much lower. Indonesia's the exception - Firefox has a share of something like 80%. No idea how that happened. Japan's pretty tech savvy as well and has a high rate of technology penetration.
- ItarPeyo 15y agoInteresting. Do you think the MS-centric tech culture has anything to do with copyright law not being enforced strictly in some countries?
- msravi 15y agoIt probably has more to do with a lot of asian companies imposing tight restrictions on what can/cannot be installed on work computers rather than a microsoft-centric tech culture.
- wyclif 15y agoAsia is pretty MSFT-centric, but I was a little surprised that on my trips to the Philippines, beginning in 2009, I began seeing a lot of Firefox installations, even Firefox-only, on a lot of boxen in the Internet cafes there. So it seems the tide is turning.
- azakai 15y ago> Asia has a pretty Microsoft-centric tech culture. Which is a good thing for Microsoft but a bad thing for Asia.
- starwed 15y agoHere is a pretty interesting blog post from Gen Kanai (a mozilla-guy) about Indonesia: http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2010/06/29/mozilla-in-indonesia-2010/ http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2010/06/29/mozilla-in-indonesia-...