Tom Benson wrote:
> http://www.google.com/trends?q=REALbasic&ctab=1&sa=N
>
> interesting to see exactly where the bulk of searches about RB are
> coming from, no??
>
http://www.google.com/trends?q=REALbasic&ctab=1&geo=US&date=all
The fall-off since 2005 is pretty impressive (not in a positive sense).
It seems consistent for a number of languages and tools, until you put
in the new stars: Ruby has a nice uptrend, while C# is about flat -- a
good sign, compared to sharp drops for Java, RB, and VB.
Doing a "link:" search, you learn there are (approximately):
23,000 non-press release (news portals, etc) pages linked to Apple
Developer pages ("-apple.com" for obvious reasons, too)
Under 100 for Real Software -- and several were rbgarage
Granted, not a meaningful search by any standard... but fun to know how
many sites link to Real Software.
Trends are not important, if the product does what you want. However,
trends can also tell you a lot about the product's place in the larger
universe. I knew way ahead of time when FoxPro was a dead end, when 4D
seemed to stall, and when I might want to drop Gupta SQL (stupid me, I
went to InterBase at the time...)
- CSW
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