It's kind of funny that people accept Net Applications' metrics for operating system market share when we're talking about Windows XP/7/8 without making a peep but refuse to accept the fact that Net Applications also shows that IE is the dominant web browser by a large margin (IE @ 58%, Chrome @ 17.5%, Firefox @ 17.3%, Safari @ 5.7%).
I get downvoted to 0 or below on Hacker News every time I point it out along with the fact that Net Applications is more accurate because it measures visitors instead of hits. It's likely some of the same people who downvote and refuse to believe that every character of every URL in Chrome is sent to Google with prediction on (the default).
It's funny, some people desperately need to believe that Chrome is the most popular browser and does no wrong just because they use it.
That article uses the same data from Net Applications (via NetMarketShare). The Chrome 'true believers' will find some way to explain it away because it doesn't fit their world view. I wonder if they believe if evolution? :)
