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FirefoxFirefoxPosted Dec 15, 2005 14:39 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)In reply to: Firefox by grouch Parent article: GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition
The original poster is comparing, not measuring. It's perfectly easy to compare. Do any of your suggested apps have anywhere *near* the number of active users as Firefox? Of Mplayer/Gaim/GCC, definitely not. I suspect a difference of at least two orders of magnitude, probably more. Apache doesn't count, of course, because it's not installed on the user's machine.
"One way is to check feedback in all its forms..."
A lack of feedback implies success? You're not serious are you? If you are, then let me suggest, at the very least, reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias
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Firefox Posted Dec 15, 2005 16:40 UTC (Thu) by grouch (guest, #27289) [Link] The original poster made a very easy leap from observing the popularity of Firefox to attributing that popularity to the simplification of its user interface. You haven't addressed that at all nor have you addressed any other factor that influenced Firefox's popularity. You assert that comparison rather than measuring is the point, yet you immediately begin asking about numbers of users. Make up your mind. If you choose to stick with comparing numbers, let's see some numbers. What numbers will you use to prove your assertions? Downloads? Surveys? Apache is installed on my machine and a great many others as well.
A lack of feedback of the type proposed and under the conditions given could indeed imply success. Your link to selection bias does not change that. As a program matures, it should naturally generate less feedback or else it isn't really maturing, it's stagnating or abandoned.
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