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an browser on OSX is likely looking for more basic information than a browser on Windows What's the reason for thinking that?
by matthewmacleod 12y ago
an browser on OSX is likely looking for more basic information than a browser on Windows
What's the reason for thinking that?
- DouweM 12y agoLet's give OP the benefit of the doubt and assume they don't mean to imply OS X users are inherently or on average less tech-savvy or intelligent than Windows users, because that's ridiculous. From http://flowingdata.com/2011/04/26/mac-vs-pc-people/ http://flowingdata.com/2011/04/26/mac-vs-pc-people/: > Mac people are 21% more likely than PC people to consider themselves computer-savvy gearheads. > 54% of PC people have completed a four-year college degree or higher. The same can be said for 67% of Mac people. Obviously this is "just" a survey, but it's one with 388,000 users participating, and I haven't seen any other surveys or research that concludes the opposite. So, let's assume their reasoning is that there are more people switching from Windows to OS X than the other way around, that these people are not very familiar yet with their new OS, and that these OS X users will thus search more basic "how do I do X?" queries than Windows users, most of whom have been using the OS for years. Makes sense to me.
- youWontLikeThis 12y agoIf a 4 year degree could qualify me as a tech savvy guy, at this point I would be a poet and an engineer. I consider myself a genius, but, you know, when I ask around, it seems that I suck at writing theatrical masterpieces. I don't have a degree either, but I'm that friend who fixes the computer of his doctorated friends. Most of them cheap bastards with pcs. Yeah, 300k+ is a hell of a survey, but I fail to see some rigour into it.