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You should start your comment with "As a top 5% computer-literate HN reader". To my parents, double clicking on "Internet Explorer" means "opening the internet
by Galanwe 3y ago
You should start your comment with "As a top 5% computer-literate HN reader".
To my parents, double clicking on "Internet Explorer" means "opening the internet".
- lucb1e 3y agoI sure hope not. What OS version are they running?!
- psunavy03 3y agoThis is not unusual; my 70-something dad still runs an ancient Windows 7 machine.
- seeknotfind 3y agoTaking this to mean, Bing has still achieved significant market share via start menu integration. Yeah.
- hot_gril 3y agoChrome's market share alone is a lot more than 5%.
- Galanwe 3y agoGetting a meaningful market share of browser usage is very hard. First, because most statistics are based on self reported user agent metrics from the top websites. But my parents don't go to Reddit, PornHub, YouTube or LinkedIn, etc. Second, culturally speaking, I don't think we have accurate reporting of non-western websites. I bet most of China, India and Russia websites don't care about reporting their metrics publicly. And last, internet usage distribution is very skewed. I myself probably generate 1000x more internet traffic as my parents, so I probably count as 1000x more market share than them. Yet, in terms of "users", I would count the same as they do.
- hot_gril 3y agoIt's not ideal, but given how easy it is to fingerprint devices, they probably don't count you 1000x.
- Tyr42 3y agoThat sounds like you're prompting an AI there.