Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: A talk with an Apple person............ Message-ID: <14490@smoke.brl.mil> Date: 16 Nov 90 10:39:41 GMT References: Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD. Lines: 21 In article sk2f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Seth D. Kadesh) writes: >they decided not to when a survey found only %5 of the GS users use GS >specific software!!!! I find that extremely hard to believe - %95 of >the GS owners only use //e software ?!?!?!? It is (barely) within the realm of possibility that 95% OF THOSE SURVEYED were unaware of GS-specific software being used on GSes. However, I'd be extremely skeptical about that poll. I'm willing to bet that nobody on this net was included in the survey, just as none of use were included in the survey that Sierra On-Line calimed to have conducted. That would indicate that the sample was not very representative. In fact Apple Computer doesn't seem to have ANY corporate means of dealing with Apple II users outside the K-12 educational market; probably K-12 products are almost all 8-bit versions. (There are a few outstanding counterexamples, but GS-only products would not be easy to justify in a school where most of the installed base would not be able to use them.) I can practically guarantee that over 95% of personal IIGS users use GS-specific software. But we're the ones that Apple officially pretends do not exist.