So if, for instance, its numbers show China's share of world Internet users is half what the CIA's numbers show, Net Applications would count each Chinese browser in its data twice.
And the company failed to exploit many of its advantages and annoyed many with its unwillingness to work with the grain of the net culture by supporting the Netscape browser or opening up AOL's Instant Messenger to work with other services.
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According to web analystics service StatCounter, at the end of 2012 7.92% of its sample of three million global net users accessed the internet via Safari, while 36.42% used Google's Chrome browser.