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Re: Of Interest To Robotics Folks? Perhaps...
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 4 Jul 2001 18:28:26 GMT
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Steve Baker <sjbaker1@+AvoidSpam+airmail.net>
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Matthew Gerber wrote:
> 32 reasonable arguments, coming up (most current data I could find-may not
> all apply directly to home use vs. educational vs. business, but provided
> for market share information):
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> *In a nationwide survey of 22,000 creative firms, 77% of them plan to
> purchase Macintosh computers in 1999, outselling both Windows and Windows NT
> by an astounding margin of over 3 to 1. The research company stated, "Apple
> continues to dominate the creative markets."
> (TrendWatch 1999 Creative Atlas Guide)
Do 'creative firms' buy lots of Lego?
> * 72% of the alumni of Rochester Institute of Technology - arguably the
> world's oldest (1830s), largest and best school of photography and printing
> in the world - own Macs.
> ("Contact Sheet", the RIT alumni news letter)
Are photographers and printers part of Lego's core market?
> * More than 57% of Web sites that use video use Apple's QuickTime to deliver it.
> (Apple Computer)
So people who serve quicktime from their websites are big Lego purchasers?
> * On average, the cost to develop and support Windows applications is 50%
> higher per dollar of revenue than the cost to develop for Macintosh.
> (Software and Information Industry Association)
Undeniably true...That's why Lego have no money left to support a Mac version - it
all has to be spent on those 90% of *HOME* users with Windoze machines.
> * Mac users are 50% more accurate and 44% more productive than Wintel users.
> (A.D. Little report)
...and so they have more time left to buy Lego?
> * 20% of all the personal computers in use today are Macs.
> (Minneapolis Star Tribune, 5/11/98)
A 1998 figure. The December 2000 figure is 5%...same as Linux. By now, if the
growth rates have held firm, MacOS is the THIRD most popular OS...now there are
actually TWO Mac OS's...and one of them is UNIX...the number of non-UNIX Mac's
will plummet.
> * Macintosh software comprises over 18% of all software sold. Macintosh
> users actually use more applications than Windows users, citing ease of
> installation of Mac applications as one of the reasons.
> (Software and Information Industry Association)
We aren't talking about software sales - we are talking about Lego sales.
Mac software sales are higher than you'd expect from the proportion of
computers out there because Apple don't bundle as much stuff as Microsoft
do - so there is more need to buy software after the fact - hardly anybody
buys software for Linux 'cos its basically all free.
I'm also betting that's 18% of the revenue and not 18% of the disks - and so
that could just be a reflection of the generally higher price of Mac software.
> * Apple computers account for 15% of CompUSA's CPU sales.
> (From the WWDC Keynote Speech by Steve Jobs, 11 May 98)
Another 1998 figure.
<snip lots more Mac propaganda>
The fact is that NONE of the things you mention matter IN THIS CONTEXT.
The one and ONLY figure that matters to Lego is the number of Lego purchasers
who have MacOS and the number who have Windoze.
Taking even the most WILDLY inflated figures, Mac has no more than a 5 to 10%
share of the *HOME* market. Windoze undoubtedly has 90%.
So, unless you have some figures to show that Apple users buy TEN TIMES as
much Lego (maybe TWENTY TIMES) per capita compared to the Windoze community
you don't have an argument. It's just silly to quote the number of worthless
patents Apple and Microsoft can wave at each other!
Linux is in a similar position - so much as I *love* the OS, I'm realistic
about the likelyhood of getting much support.
> Sounds like a major OS on a major platform to me.
Oh Nonsense. It's a tiny minority of home users that have Mac's. It's
undoubtedly a *great* OS on a *great* platform - but just as VHS beat
Betamax (and they both beat the technically superior V2000), technical
superiority doesn't *always* count.
Lego are doing the right thing in order to assure their future.
Sad but true.
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| All this is besides the point! Lego should support Mac, simply because it should! The Mac is an option for consumers (whom some people say is much superior to Windoze), and while it's there companies and organisms -especially those in education- (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Well, yes, actually, after getting this message a couple of days ago: (URL)We all know by now that LEGO has (...) 32 reasonable arguments, coming up (most current data I could find-may not all apply directly to home use vs. educational vs. (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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