[thelist] The Mac Market (was: Mac runtime for java update?)

[Martin]

Greg Strange wrote on 26/7/00 7:58 pm

>What these percentages don't tell you is that, even if the percentage is as
>low as our Australian colleague reports, we are still talking about
>literally millions of Mac users.  Why would you do anything that would
>alienate or frustrate even 500,000 users who may visit your site?  

Also, the % of Mac users online is very, very high (something like
92% of iMac users - it'll be in summaries of Jobs' keynote)

And as a vociferous bunch, they're much more likely to take
umbrage at sites that don't work for them.

Cheers
Martin