From: Eric Strobel (fyzycyst_at_comcast.net)
Date: Thu Apr 22 2004 - 16:52:34 PDT
On Apr 22, 2004, at 2:24 PM, David Ensteness wrote:
> I don't mean to try to reanimate a dead horse but a short while back we
> were talking about how much sense does it make to develop software for
> Apple's less than 5% total market share.
>
> Well, one of the examples was Adobe ...
>
> Here is an article where Adobe is interviewed by PC Mag about Apple and
> Macintosh, Adobe says around 25% of their income is from Mac sales and
> that a lot of their customers are planning to move to G5s this year.
>
> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1572017,00.asp
>
IIRC, Microsoft makes more $ per Mac than they do per PC. So it makes
sense for them to keep an effort going in Macs -- that's the best
marginal return for them.
- Eric.
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