To reiterate. Any estimates about percentage of users that will upgrade to G3?
Ultimately I think the 80% repurchase figure is accurate. The harder question to answer is "When?", i.e. on what kind of upgrade cycle.
Incidentally, we got a new G3 on Monday, and we like it a lot.
Anybody out there with a list of software titles for the Mac in April 1997 and another in April 1998, to compare drop out rates?
Quicken is the most significant one I can think of. Before that, Quickbooks. A number of games, like Quake2 (although usually the best ones do get ported eventually). There was another significant one, but I can't think of it.
Is an SGI box useful for advertisement work? Could it replace a Mac? Yes/no? Why?
Not for advertising, no. There aren't enough apps on SGI that designers would need to use. Also, at agencies the Macs often need to function as productivity machines, or coexist with PC productivity machines, and there are few of those apps for SGIs. SGIs only really out-compete Macs in 3D, and as servers, from my experience.
If Rhapsody is a success, SGI and even Sun will have a new competitor in their core markets, while Apple's core markets remain fairly solid.
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