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June 18, 2008

Did Apple update their 1.5 renderer ?

Looks like it. Lots of Apple people in my web logs as well. Maybe my mind tricks are working ! Lima Lima Lima.

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March 24, 2008

If you want attention, support Mac OS X

I'm not sure if this is just randomness at play, but I develop software that runs on Windows, Mac and Linux and my download statistics are showing some very interesting tendencies.

Almost all the people who download software are Mac users, even though my download page has an audience that is pretty much split 50/50 between Windows and Mac. Linux and other Unix systems amounts to around 4% of traffic.

Windows users read my stuff, but almost never download anything. Are they afraid of software ? Or are my statistics lying because of Chinese-American spammers scraping my website for content five million times a day ?

Or is this the real reason Web 2.0 is such a hype ? Because Windows users get angst every time they install a piece of software that is not from a Fortune 500 company ?

Here are my Download.com (Windows) and VersionTracker (Mac) pages. Maybe this trend will change over time.

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