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Apples and oranges
It doesn't make much sense to me to attempt a comparison between three different classes of Internet applications. Web browsers are used actively for locating information, doing research, carrying out interactive transactions, etc. Instant messaging applications are used actively for immediate, direct, person-to-person communications. Media players, using Internet, are commonly used passively to listen to music while doing other things, frequently with no relationship whatsoever to the Internet (word processing, programming, etc.) And then there are background applications that work during computer idle time transferring data analysis information (SETI, cancer research, etc.).

It only makes sense that Internet-connected applications that can be used passively or in background with non-Internet applications are likely to have a statistical advantage.





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Invented the internet?  bdg_z | 01/05/04
Who invented internet  wmareevesjr | 01/05/04
Apples and oranges  BruceWheelock@... | 01/05/04
Re: Invented The Internet?  danielleisabadgirl | 01/05/04
Man.....  JoeMama_z | 01/05/04
No, No, Gore Invented the Atom  Blair_z | 01/06/04
Where's Al Gore when he's slighted  FilledOut | 01/05/04
Media Player? What media player?  skeptic tank | 01/05/04
Media Player? What media player????  middle of nowhere | 01/05/04
another gd authority  dick lechter | 01/06/04
The wave of the future...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/05/04
until you have to pay to access it...  Rick_K | 01/05/04
until you have to pay to access it...  aaantunes | 01/06/04
Semantics, Semantics, Semantics  Alias KEP | 01/05/04
Of what sample and demographic...  jimk_z | 01/06/04

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