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Jeremy White jwhite at codeweavers.com
Wed Sep 6 13:26:50 CDT 2006


> Geeks like us are in the small 5%.  And that's where we're staying.  And
> there's no real business win in making the 5% happy.  Right?  Any
> business knows of the 95/5 rule.  Five percent of your customers are
> *ALWAYS* going to be unhappy.  Focus your attention on the other 95%.
> 
> The same applies here.  Realistically, there aren't enough folks that're
> going to care if you (or I, or a few other geeks) stop visiting their site.
> 
> Thus the need for IE on the Mac.  Unfortunately.

Ah, but 12% of all laptops sold last quarter were Intel Macs...

Tell a web master that 10% of his audience can't read his page,
and you begin to get his attention.

I agree that there is a lack of regard given to Mac and Linux
browsers, but I'm just not cheerful about giving up :-/.

Cheers,

Jeremy



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