IE6 Still Going Strong In China 158
RackNine writes "Net Applications estimates that IE6 has a share of 33.8% in China, StatCounter estimates about 40.2%. Consider the fact that there are currently about 477 million Internet users in China and you get 160 to 192 million IE6 users. That is potentially more than all Internet users in Africa and the Middle East combined (187 million)."
poor people, old hw. (Score:4, Interesting)
doesn't need more explaining than that. also these stats are nothing new, the last time there was blabla confirms it browser blablychro has a blabla marketshare, the stats included these as well.
About size... (Score:3, Interesting)
"...about the size of two football fields, or your average restraining order". -- Adam Savage
Why always comparing numbers to the size or anything else? In all media there is always the "it's about the size of ..." quote that always seems it does not mean anything related to the subject discussed.
I know, completely unrelated subject. I missed it by about that much.
Re:Aye, pirates be the reason IE6 just won’t (Score:4, Interesting)
Chinese websites don't support Firefox, so that's where it ends. E.g. to make payments with Alipay/Taobao you need IE specific ActiveX plugins.
(Actually they will have unofficial firefox and even linux plugins, but it's hard to find and troublesome to install.)
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