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 _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
