Talk:Net Applications

Complaint

This article sounds like a brochure.

Gabe (talk) 17:27, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Agreed. I tagged it as such. --icambron (talk) 22:01, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Just curious: what does it mean to tag an article and how does it improve content on Wikipedia? Ottawahitech (talk) 16:57, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Accuracy

Statistics of Net Applications cannot be accurate at least because the not parsed "Others" browsers constitute 1/2 part of the statistics, and, as we can see, it strongly correlates with firefox and chrome percents. --2.60.47.100 (talk) 12:27, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

I'm not sure that the data from netmart should be taken seriously. Seems to favor Apple products. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.147.97.14 (talk) 10:34, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

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"Criticism" section

The Criticism section only cites TechRights (a notoriously anti-Microsoft website) for sources of said critique, while using "some" as a weaselword. The other two cites for this section is noting that NetApplications has Microsoft and Apple as their clients (which basically means they pay for their marketshare reports) and a sentence that misleadingly implies that the company admitted it skews its statistics with its algorithm - checking the source reveals that the company actually said that the results were skewed without any weighting (because the servers it collects data from are mostly in Europe and North America, causing disproportionate results - something that is also true of its competitor, StatCounter) and that it would start weighting the results to remove the bias.

I remember there was this argument a while ago between StatCounter and NetApplications in the press a few years back about their methodology, so it shouldn't be terribly hard to find better sources. The cite for the "skew" should be integrated into the main article as a description of its change in methodology. -MarkKB (talk) 23:06, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

OK, settle down there Steve Ballmer. Don't making your shilling too obvious...