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Does anyone remember MIT's Sixth Sense? It won a massive amount of awards in 2009. It was going to change the world.

Wearable gestural interfaces that would free people from computers. Until the mass hallucination stopped and people realised projectors just don't work like that in the real world.


Firefox is 6.38% share of desktop browsers.

Edge, a browser that comes bundled with Windows, has 13.55%.


Why ignore mobile?


Chrome and Safari comprise almost 90% of mobile. The next largest share is Samsung Internet browser.

All this says is the majority of people use a mobile phone's default browser.


It's 'remarkable' because (a) academic careers are as much about hype as science, (b) arxiv doesn't have peer review process to quash this, (c) people take arxiv seriously.


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