From: "James Preston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 1) 10% of 13 million (the original poster's assumption of how many Palms
> have been sold) is 1.3 million. I know everything's relative, but I would
> not call over a million and a quarter users a "small" audience
Which is why I've gone to great lengths to make sure my stuff all works on
2.0 devices. I'd love to sell 130,000 of even my least expensive app. :)
> 2) I'm curious, on what basis do you arrive at that figure of "probably"
> less than 10%?
This is a WAG, based on the very small number of pre-3.0 devices I
personally know/knew of. Of those devices, about 1 in 10 are still being
used by their original owner... I know a sampling of 10 or so Palm users is
small when you are talking 13 million, but like I just said.. it was a WAG.
:)
I was still using my Palm Pilot Personal (with the 3.0 upgrade card, though)
this time last year.. and my wife was still using her Palm Pilot
Professional (still running 2.0). Two reasons made us upgrade our devices to
IIIc's... one was the color option was extremely useful to us (to be able to
show portfolio like pictures) and the other was that the digitizers on both
our original devices began to drift, requiring a reset of the digitizer
every couple of days. In what I think is a tribute to Palm's simplicity and
durability, many of the others gave up their devices only under similar
circumstances.. there aren't many electronic devices that can be used and
abused every day and still work after 3 to 5 years.
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