Re: Mac shipments up 12% [Was: focus!]
- From: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
- To: Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>
- Cc: Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <uraeus linuxrising org>, desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Mac shipments up 12% [Was: focus!]
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:58:54 -0400
Calum Benson wrote:
True up to a point, although MacOS in its various (and sometimes more
usable than current) guises has been around since before any of those,
and although you can't necessarily say it's "outlived" OS/2, BeOS,
Workbench or GEM[1], it's certainly left them eating considerable dust,
in terms of widespread adoption.
I mentioned this briefly before, but I wonder what percentage of Mac's
audience has never been a question of 'switching' but is the
publishing/graphics market they have had from the beginning - that they
created, that Microsoft never had - if it's a large percentage, the
historical frequency of 'switching' starts to look even lower.
It would show that even if you're the Microsoft monopoly you can't
easily get the publishing/graphics market to switch, and that much of
Mac's marketshare doesn't come from getting people to switch.
If we look at GNOME, the success is perhaps not from switching either;
it's from people who were already using some sort of UNIX, or it's in a
computer lab or other context without an established existing set of
apps on some other platform.
All just speculation though.
Havoc
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