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@Adam Geitgey
by rain on Mon 12th Jul 2004 14:58 UTC

However, it seems about 98% of the population prefers a mouse.

If a trackball was shipped with every computer then 98% of the population would probably "prefer" a trackball.
You can't say that people prefer one thing to another if they have never been presented with the alternatives.
That's like saying that the QWERTY keymap is superior to the Dvorak keymap because 99,99% of the population use QWERTY. And you know that's not true. Practically no-one is aware of the alternative and they have been trained to use QWERTY, also Dvorak keyboards are pretty hard to find in general computer shops.
The same goes for Windows.

So stop using that stupid statistics argument.