Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 16:13:37 04/29/02
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On April 29, 2002 at 19:01:21, Michael Vox wrote: >On April 29, 2002 at 18:19:52, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>On April 29, 2002 at 17:55:36, Michael Vox wrote: >> >>>On April 29, 2002 at 15:28:56, Roy Eassa wrote: >>>> >>>>I know there are tens of millions of Mac users worldwide, with more every day. >>> >>> >>>Mac Software is less than 10% marketshare. The majority of the marketshare is >>>for publishing software. Most people that have Macs are in the Publishing >>>industry. >>> >> >> >>That's just plain wrong. There are tens of millions of Macs out there. >>Millions in schools. Millions more in homes. How can you say that "most" >>people with Macs are in the publishing industry? (Macs are also very big in >>professional music and other creative fields, which combined are also much >>larger than publishing.) >> >>>Presumably, many of these have PCs, which they could play chess on. Therefore, >>>the potential market for chess is very very small. >>> >> >> >>I do use a PC for chess (analysis, not to play against) but I know many people >>who own a Mac and no PC. The term "very very small" is very subjective. Either >>a seller can make money or it cannot. The Mac's market share in computers is >>higher (in the US, at least) than that in automobiles of Volvo, Audi, Jaguar, >>and Porsche combined, but you don't see them abandoning that market! >> >>If the total market for a product category is only 1/20 as much as for >>another, >>but there are also 1/20 as many competitors, then the revenue for a given >>company can be just as good in that smaller market as in the larger one. >> >> >>>Don't count on a Mac package! >> >> >>I might not have bought it anyway, since I rarely use my Mac for chess, but I >>know several other people who would definitely buy it. >> >> > >No it is not wrong. Remember, I said less than 10% and I was being >conservative. It is really around 5% of units are Macs. There are 100s of >millions of PCs and as per your own statement 10s of millions of Macs. > When I said "just plain wrong" I was not referring to your market share comment, but rather to this erroneous comment: "Most people that have Macs are in the Publishing industry." *That* is the statement that's just plain wrong, as the rest of my post (which you snipped out) made abundantly clear. I have restored the parts of my response that you removed, in case you had forgotten them rather than cleverly *chose* to remove them so you might appear to be right.
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