Re: Multimedia thanks - is the Internet cross platform? - reliance on

paul raudkepp (paul_raudkepp@paradigm.co.jp)
Sun, 11 Dec 1994 17:43:54 -0800

On 12/12/94 at 2:29 AM, Nick Gassman <nick@netwiz.demon.co.uk> wrote:

NG> I have heard a statistic
NG> that Mac makes up 1% of the Internet user population.

This sounds a little understated. It is probably resonable to assume that the
Internet usage by Mac users is proportional to the installed base.

NG> How worried should we be that we do not have solutions for these other
platforms?

In Japan, the Mac platform has approx a 15 - 20% share of the market. It is
popular due to its good support for multiple languages. Kanji (Japanese script)
needs 2-bytes against 1-byte for most other languages. I have not seen any
stats on Internet usage by platform here, but I would expect this percentage
would hold.

NG> What if a brilliant new web browser came out that
couldn't show some images?

We do have to rely on the browser developers but people would change which
browser they use pretty quickly if there was a major problem with it. Hopefully
there will be many competing browsers in the market.

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Paul Raudkepp
Internet Consultant, Tokyo, Japan
Tele # 81-3-3490-2557
hub@paradigm.co.jp
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