Posted by Dylan Parry on 03/30/06 11:50

Pondering the eternal question of "Hobnobs or Rich Tea?", Toby Inkster
finally proclaimed:

> I too get the drop in Opera usage, which is very odd. It is possible that
> once Opera went free, there was a spike in people using it, which is what
> we're seeing in November, but that then levelled off after Christmas when
> a bunch of people would have got new computers and perhaps forgot to copy
> Opera from their old one.

I'd say it was more likely that people thought they would give Opera a
try when it went free, and half those who tried it decided they liked it
better than their previous browser, but the other half decided the
opposite, so went back to using IE/FF/et al. In other words, you can't
please all of the people all of the time.

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Dylan Parry
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