Mark Anderson wrote:
>
> JTK wrote:
> >
> > "Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." wrote:
> > >
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > I disagree with the assertion that Mac Platform is irrelevant. Currently
> > > because of the G4, iBook, Titanium G4 500 (remember because the G4
> > > processor is pure RISC it almost twice as fast as Pentium) Notebook, and
> > > iMac, its the fastest growing Computer platform Currently.
> >
> > And has been since 1984, yet still only accounts for ~5% of the
> > computers on people's desks.
>
> You say still as though that was always the case.
>
It pretty much always has. They've been lower at times of course...
> There was a time, not too long ago (ten years or so), when Macintosh was
> nearly half of the market.
Yeah yeah, and I was ten years younger ten years ago.
> And it's still got as large a market share
> as any individual PC vendor.
When's the last time you went into Best Buy and saw "Requirements:
xxxMHz Compaq Computer" on a software box? Ie, that old saw is
completely specious, come on.
> It's only when you consider all the PC
> vendors as a group that Apple appears to be much more fringe.
No, it's also when you go into Best Buy and are unable to purchase
software for a Mac that the word "fringe" comes to mind. Hell, I can go
into Best Buy and at least buy Red Hat Linux!
> ~5% might
> be low, considering all of the old Macs still running perfectly well in
> education and such, as well as new sales.
>
Actually I suspect it's rather high from a potential-Mozilla-user point
of view.
> But that's *way* off-topic.
Indeed, to a large extent. But how much effort is going into Mozilla to
pander to the fringe? Frankly, I suspect most of it, directly or
indirectly.
