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On 7/14/2015 11:55 AM, Mark Rousell wrote:<br>
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BUT... I agree that mobile is also a necessity. In my opinion,
desktop mail clients have a future <b>as part of</b> a
desktop/mobile/web integrated ecosystem. Thus I agree that
Thunderbird needs a mobile offering so that people can
transparently see their Thunderbird experience on any device.<br>
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Last week I bought a Microsoft Surface 3 tablet, largely because I
needed a small travel tablet that could also run Thunderbird. The
new Surface line has abandoned the old non-compatible architecture
on their low end, which make now for a viable Thunderbird tablet
machine. I'm even learning to like parts of the Microsoft 8.1
tablet-focused UI, which I have completely hidden on my 8.1 Desktop.<br>
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This potentially offers some monetisation opportunities. Free
Thunderbird desktop but pay-for mobile client or pay-for
synchronisation facilities. Maybe.<br>
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I think that is unlikely, the Thunderbird brand will continue to
stand for a freely available software program.<br>
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On 14/07/2015 14:14, Benjamin Kerensa wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Money and licensing aside this will *likely*
impact Thunderbird's user base<br>
significantly.<br>
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Unlike Firefox, we (or at least I) ultimately really don't care how
many users that we have. We need to figure out ways to accumulate
the resources that we need to make a great product, and if we have
half of the users but great resources, that is fine with me. I will
do everything in my power to empower the users and other
stakeholders who are part of whatever is our ultimately stable
solution, but if we lose users who were really just after the free
beer, that is fine with me.<br>
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That raises a good question: What percentage of TB users are on
Windows, Mac, and Linux? Do we know?<br>
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I have access to that data, yes. The last official report was
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2015/02/thunderbird-usage-continues-to-grow/">https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2015/02/thunderbird-usage-continues-to-grow/</a>
but that report did not call out OS. The standard reports do not
call out the OS for Thunderbird unfortunately, (and it seems to take
a PhD in data science to figure out how to modify them), but the
Lightning data is a pretty good proxy (see
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/lightning/statistics/">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/lightning/statistics/</a>)
They are 85% Windows, 12% Linux, and 3% OSX.<br>
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Firefox has pretty good data that ADI only captures about a third of
actual users, so a current estimate for our total user base using
the same logic is 20-25 million users.<br>
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:rkent<br>
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