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Please improve the size of the text.Chanakyathegreat (talk) 05:32, 19 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately, the size of the text is fixed by the Google API. However, I don't have a problem with the text size, myself. -- Groggy Dice T | C 05:04, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

I have visited the Market Share website listed as the source of this image. The market share is not for the first quarter of 2009, but December of 2008. In fact, if you think about it, the data cannot be for the first quarter of 2009, because that quarter isn't over yet. --Susurrus (talk) 23:38, 17 January 2009 (UTC)


 * You're right, the URL used to go directly to the quarterly number, but it was edited to go to the monthly number. (You have to select "This Quarter" from the "Timeframe" dropdown menu.) And the chart is using the December, not quarterly, results. I'll correct the URL, and update Lyyo's chart.


 * (Perhaps Lyyo wanted to switch the chart from using quarterly numbers to monthly, but in that case, he also needed to change the caption. Also, the article itself uses Net Applications' quarterly numbers. On the talk page, the rationale given was that this would smooth out the volatility of month-to-month fluctuations.)


 * By the way, Net Applications does give out numbers for the ongoing quarter, based on the months that are in. So right now, "this quarter" means the Q4 numbers, but when the January numbers come in at the beginning of next month, Net Applications will also have "Q1" numbers that are really the same as the January monthly numbers. And when the February figures become available, there will be Q1 numbers based on two months.


 * In fact, Koavf's original graphic was based on a two-month quarter. I got involved when I contacted him about updating to the full quarter numbers, and he told me it was alright with him if I went ahead with it myself. I considered whether to keep updating the chart with mid-quarter figures, but decided to wait for the full quarter numbers.


 * I was aware that, as a public-domain image, this was eligible to be moved to Commons, but decided against it, because it would destroy the history of earlier images here. Oh, well. -- Groggy Dice T | C 05:04, 20 January 2009 (UTC)