In my classroom I have 6 machines. Systems: 8 (1 machine), 9 (3
machines), 10.3 (Emac) and 10.4 (iBook). All are on our LAN. Both
the latter machines access Classic mode from time to time. Schools
still run OS 9 in many cases. Quantifiable stats I don't have, but I
know it's true. Many of the older machines are on their last legs,
but until they literally keel over, they will be in some state of use.
Mark
On Oct 1, 2006, at 5:12 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Mark Schonewille wrote:
>> Mark Schonewille wrote:
>>> I still know very many people, schools, firms etc. who still
haven't
>>> spend the resources on replacing their ancient hardware...
>>>
>> Does Apple or any authoritative EDU body publish market stats
>> quantifying this?
>>
>> It would be help ROI projections to have some idea in advance of
>> how many people would be affected.
>
> Problem is, people who are on a tight budget are not very
interesting
> to marketeers.
Precisely why marketers would have a keen interest in quantifying
this. It would be invaluable to know the percentages of those
likely to buy products for OS X and those who haven't bought a new
computer in more than half a decade.
If the number of people using OS 9 is anything close to as large as
it was two years ago, all projections for all OS X-based vendors
will produce a deficit for these companies unless they're able to
know and correct for this dormant submarket.
For this reason it would seem very useful for a professional
marketing firm or major vendor to have put out the relatively minor
cost to quantify this submarket.
--
Richard Gaskin
Managing Editor, revJournal
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