Sunday, July 10, 2005

Playing with sound statistics

Don't get me wrong I love Skype, but the hype on many web pages is "40 million registered users of Skype". Now on-line I only ever see 1.5 million - and I am on-line with skype 24/7. Which means there are 38.5 million dissatisfied ex-Skype users out there.

So who is right - the 1.5 million die-hards like myself, or the 38.5 million who went away?

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I believe Skype counts downloads of its software toward the 40 million number. Except for the numbers Skype marketeers publish, I think it is a very satisfying communication platform.
Bilal

9:24 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You were always hopeless at stats, right?

It doesn't mean that the 38.5 million are never online. It means the maximum number of those 40 million that are online at any one time is 1.5 million.

8:13 pm  

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