As with any marketing statement, I’d encourage people to be somewhat sceptical about large number claims. It’s an interesting number and I have not seen the math [but]how many internet connected users are there? 1.1 billion, 1.5 billion, something in that area.
She described the number as “interesting math,” even while that one billion figure includes every download and update since Firefox launched since 2004. Repeated downloads too. And people having multiple computers.
Knowing that, it doesn’t seem that crazy to me. What do you think about Amy’s claims? And about Firefox’s figure? [The Guardian]
Charles
Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 7:58 AMShe makes a good point. I’ll always be sure to be sceptical of big numbers in Microsoft marketing statements from now on.
Matthew Grace
Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 9:49 AMFurther still, what about all the downloads not from Mozilla’s site? Filehippo and app depositories like that would have a massive amount of downloads not reported directly to Mozilla. I think she is just a leetle bit jealous.
Jordn
Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 12:32 PMDon’t forget us nightly testers – I’ve probably done one or two hundred of those billion downloads. And think of all the other nightly and beta testers, too.
nicholas
Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 6:24 PMBut it is still 1 billion downloads :S
Mathijs
Sunday, August 16, 2009 at 2:39 AMIt’s one billion downloads, not people. Imagine downloading every update automatically. That’s easily over 10 downloads per person. But the downloads are real, nonetheless.
PeterE
Monday, August 17, 2009 at 8:42 AMIs that like M$ claiming an install of IE for every copy of Windows sold?
StevoTheDevo
Monday, August 17, 2009 at 10:11 AMWell from the top of my head I’ve downloaded FF 4 times for my windows box (2 reinstalls, 2 OS updates, XP-Vista and Vista-Win7RC), twice for my Linux Box (1 reinstall), and twice for my macs (once each), then add on my 4 work PC’s (2 machines each at 2 workplaces), that’s 10 downloads just from me!
13 if you include the Portable Firefox I have had on my 3 USB drives over the period.. (but those aren’t included in the official downloads)
I think 1 billion downloads is a pretty easy number to reach!