July 12th, 2007
Will the Firefox gain a market share of 50% by 2009?
Popular Science runs an online game called PopSci Predictions Exchange (a game where you bet - with virtual money - on the future of science and technology). An IPO I saw today caught my eye:
Will the Firefox Web browser gain a market share of 50 percent by January 1, 2009?
It’s been around only since the end of 2004, but in that short period, Mozilla’s open-source, multiplatform Web browser Firefox has managed to rack up 15 percent of the worldwide browser market. Used by many as a more secure, dependable and standards-abiding alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (which is still the most used browser by a considerable margin), Firefox is expected to continue its upward trend.
This proposition will pay out at POP$100 if the total market share of Mozilla Firefox reaches 50 percent on or before January 1, 2009, according to the statistics kept by Netapplications.com.
Interesting - ideal for a quick poll:
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