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<div id="newHeader"> <b>From: </b>"Nomis101"<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Nomis101@web.de"><Nomis101@web.de></a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Friday, 20/07/12 19:39:16 19:39 GMT +0100 [Week
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<b>Subject:</b>Re: TB End Users survey - do not distribute</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 20.07.12 10:11, schrieb Axel:<br>
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<pre wrap="">and especially that it seems there are more linux users than Mac users.
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Again, not too surprising as a lot of linux distros bundle
Thunderbird; what mail clients does Mac OS bundle?</blockquote>
Ok, I didn't know that Linux bundles Thunderbird. Than this is not
surprising, you are right. OS X bundles Apple Mail.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 20.07.12 10:11, schrieb Axel:<br>
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<blockquote class=" cite" id="mid_500912CD_8040904_gmail_com"
cite="mid:500912CD.8040904@gmail.com" type="cite">Since the
survey makes no claim on overall market share of Mac users vs
Windows users, and also doesn't state that the numbers are
normalized against this, this is likely just a reflection of the
overall number of Mac users in these countries. We got to be
very careful with numbers from statistics like this it is easy
to jump to the wrong conclusions.</blockquote>
Yes, indeed, its not normalized. Would be interesting to see this
normalized to marked share. But most Mac user I know are users of
Apple Mail.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 20.07.12 11:46, schrieb Tanstaafl:<br>
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id="mid_500928E9_7080609_libertytrek_org"
cite="mid:500928E9.7080609@libertytrek.org" type="cite">On
2012-07-20 3:21 AM, Nomis101 <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Nomis101@web.de"><Nomis101@web.de></a>
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<blockquote class=" cite" id="Cite_7" type="cite" style="color:
#000000;">Am 20.07.12 01:33, schrieb Anne-Marie Bourcier: <br>
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style="color: #000000;">End of last year, we conducted an
end-users survey on our installed <br>
base. We are pleased to share the complete results with you
today. <br>
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This are interesting results. The first thing I didn't expect
is, that <br>
it seems there are more users of TB in germany than in usa. I
had <br>
expected the opposite. The next thing I was surprised is the
huge number <br>
of windows users compared to other users, and especially that
it seems <br>
there are more linux users than Mac users. I didn't know that
mac users <br>
of TB are such a minority (maybe they most use Apple Mail). So
it seems <br>
we need to get more attractive to Mac users. <br>
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Don't you think it makes more sense to try to cater to your <b
class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>largest<span
class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b> user base rather than the <b
class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>smallest<span
class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b>? </blockquote>
Sure, if the larger base are larger in total number. But my
thinking was, that most Mac users are using the bundled Apple
Mail, because its from Apple and its already on the system (like
that way, that a Windows user is using Internet Explorer). And
than, you need to make TB more attractive to Mac users (and
advertise it to them), so they maybe switch from Apple Mail to TB.
:-) But as Axel sayed, you need than normalized values against
marked share.<br>
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Why don't we leave catering to that specific taste segment of the
market to Postbox? They are pretty good at cloning Apple Mail :P<br>
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And that's the last thing I would want Thunderbird to do. :)<br>
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Axel<br>
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