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Re: LEGO Brick Masters Launches!
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lugnet.lego
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Thu, 23 Sep 2004 07:20:28 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, Ace Kim wrote:
> In lugnet.lego, Ted Michon wrote:
> > > Next, why can't you hire some programmers that are more flexible? This
> > > Windows-only nonsense is silly. This is not the best, so this is not good
> > > enough.
> >
> > This question gets asked a lot, but the answer is easy. Macs have 1% (pick
> > your own number, whatever it is, it's under 10%) of the market. Suppose it
> > "only" takes 25% more budget to clone a Mac version of the PC product (it
> > may not be that cheap, because typically Mac programmer resources come in
> > multiples of whole bodies because there are not a lot of switch hitters out
> > there). Nobody wants to make only 1% more for spending 25% more - that's a
> > really poor return on investment compared to spending that same 25% on
> > another new PC product that also sells to the 99% part of the market. About
> > the only mitigating factor is that you can have the luxury of only porting
> > hits to the Mac market, but that only casts in concrete that the Mac
> > versions would come later than the PC versions.
> >
> > -Ted
> >
> > whose first 7 personal computers were Macs but finally baled because Apple
> > wanted $1200 to repair a 2 year old motherboard while PC users could by
> > newer/faster/more powerful motherboards for $200
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> i dunno... can you really say that the mac market is less than 10%? that
> might have been true a few years ago, but apple is steadily gaining
> marketshare; one would only have to look at the number of apple retail stores
> opening up at a mall near you. that 90% or greater number that keeps getting
> tossed around certainly may be true for BUSINESS computers, but apple has
> always had a good portion of the educational market. that in itself should be
> reason enough to support software on that platform since this product, for
> all its intents and purposes, is for kids.
I would say 10% is way high - take a look at my stats for 2 different non-lego
sites I either run or help out on (neither of them have anything to do with each
other). These stats are starting from 6-1-04:
(platform hits percentage)
Windows XP 77722 63.08%
Windows 98 26594 21.58%
Windows 2000 11881 9.64%
Macintosh 4147 3.36%
Other 1100 0.89%
Windows 95 719 0.58%
Windows NT 524 0.42%
Linux 2 324 0.26%
WebTV 99 0.08%
Windows ME 69 0.05%
Windows 3.1 12 0.00%
FreeBSD 10 0.00%
IRIX 3 0.00%
SunOS 5 2 0.00%
OS/2 1 0.00%
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Windows 95.38% - Mac 3.36% - Unix 0.27% - Other 0.97%
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Windows XP 493311 58.86%
Windows 98 193659 23.10%
Windows 2000 84749 10.11%
Macintosh 42511 5.07%
Other 9478 1.13%
Windows 95 5757 0.68%
Linux 2 4101 0.48%
Windows NT 2833 0.33%
Windows ME 791 0.09%
WebTV 456 0.05%
FreeBSD 148 0.01%
Windows 3.1 118 0.01%
SunOS 5 57 0.00%
OS/2 19 0.00%
Amiga 11 0.00%
IRIX 7 0.00%
HP-UX 3 0.00%
AIX 3 0.00%
OSF1 1 0.00%
Windows 93.22% - Mac 5.07% - Unix 0.51% - Other 1.18%
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This holds true on my personal Lego sites as well also (Land of Bricks and
PromoBricks) -- Mac is only about 5%
> personally, i think it's ludicrous that LEGO has yet to support the Mac
> platform.
I would not go out of my way for 5% of the market. Ace, join the dark sde ;)
Mark P
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| (...) Interesting stats. I wonder why the software distinguishes between various versions of Windows but does not distinguish between classic Mac OS and Mac OS X. I'm very surprised that the "other" category is higher than Unix. Anyway, quite it's (...) (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.lego)
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| (...) i dunno... can you really say that the mac market is less than 10%? that might have been true a few years ago, but apple is steadily gaining marketshare; one would only have to look at the number of apple retail stores opening up at a mall (...) (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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