Re: [NTLK] [OT] Market share.

From: Eric Strobel (fyzycyst_at_comcast.net)
Date: Mon Apr 19 2004 - 16:44:25 PDT


On Apr 19, 2004, at 3:05 PM, Joel M. Sciamma wrote:

>
> If the estimate is that there are 30M Mac users in total and, by Apple
> figures, only 40% are on X (what they interpret as a big success), your
> installed base is 12M. From a developer's point of view, this is the
> market,
> the other 60% who can't or wont run OS X are invisible.
>

Actually, I'm pretty sure many of the current crop of OS X apps are
still Carbon apps, which means they can be run under OS 8.6 and later.
It is certainly some extra effort to test on an "older" machine (though
this eMac I'm typing on will dual-boot), but the effort should roughly
double the number of Macs you can sell to.

- Eric.

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