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Re: Lego blew it AGAIN...
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Sun, 1 Oct 2000 19:09:16 GMT
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> From: "lawrence wilkes" <lawrence@thewilkesfamily.freeserve.co.uk>
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> All your analysis shows is the small minority of publishers who lay out books
> like this still use macs, where as the average member of the public (i.e. Lego
> customers) use PCs. It should not surprise you that the boxes, manuals,
> adverts and graphic content of PC software is authored on Macs.
I didn't say it was suprising.
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> There is nothing ironic about this at all. What is shows is that technology
> has little to do with market success. Macs dominate the publishing world, not
> because of any superior technology, but purely because that industry, as early
> adopters of macs WSYWIG approach,
At the time, that -was- superior technology.
> has effectively 'standardised' on macs and
> it is very difficult for any other platform to penetrate it now. This
> demonstrates the power of owning a market rather than just possessing better
> technology.
I'm aware of that too. I'm a graphic designer and I use a Mac at work as
well as at home.
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> Unfortunately, the customer market is dominated by PCs. Not cause they are
> better, but just cause wintel and its partners did a better job of marketing
> them. Outside of the USA, macs are almost non-existent in the consumer market.
I'm not talking about "outside of the USA." Since the advent of the iMac as
a consumer-level computer, Apple has seen explosive sales. Apple also still
enjoys a healthy percentage of the education market, and since LEGO markets
their games in a quasi-educational way, it would seem that they would want
as many users as possible to buy their games. I suppose they're relying on
their DACTA stuff in the education sector.
It would seem to me that if LEGO wants to be a household name, they'd want
to get their product onto every possible platform.
~Mark
--
Mark's Lego Creations
http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego
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