So? Richard Feynmann's Nobel Prize winning idea was, in his retelling, inspired by some guy throwing a plate in the Cornell cafeteria:

http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/FeynmansWobblingPlate/

The "amazing" part of the OP's discussion is not the immediate topic at hand, but that someone took the time to go past the pat answers ("because Windows has more users, etc") and consider all the other factors that have led to things being the way they are. If only more important fields -- education, medicine, politics, justice -- had more people willing to spend a summer hour examining their deeply-held assumptions.