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<b>From: </b>"pascal chevrel"<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:pascal.chevrel@free.fr"><pascal.chevrel@free.fr></a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Friday, 20/07/12 15:47:22 15:47 GMT +0100 [Week
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<b>Subject:</b>Re: TB End Users survey - do not distribute</div>
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<blockquote class=" cite" id="mid_50096F7A_6000707_free_fr"
cite="mid:50096F7A.6000707@free.fr" type="cite">Le 20/07/2012
08:51, Vincent a écrit :
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<blockquote class=" cite" id="Cite_4" type="cite">Interesting
study... Quite frightening for Thunderbird's future to see how
old is our user-base...
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Define 'old'!
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The study says that the majority of users are more than 35year
old, the median age of the European population is more than 40:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Median_age.png">http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Median_age.png</a>
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The western world is aging (and life expectancy is also
increasing), I would have been surprised to learn that users of
Thunderbird do not reflect the population the study was conducted
in, that leads to the interestring point that a lot of people in
the computing industry design and market their product for a
population that is probably a minority of the market (that
probably explains why most of the web pages are written so small,
damn young designers! ;) )
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with age, comes also higher awareness of quality, so think this is A
Good Thing. Let young people write about how their cat rolled over
in 140 letters :) on facebook / they're not necessarily the target
audience of desktop mail anyway.<br>
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Axel - jeez, only 4 years to the big five oh; I don't feel <i>that</i>
old.<br>
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