Welcome back Little Chicken! From the url you gave: "Hutchison has also undercut the market on its CDMA network, offering a new tariff of $80 a month for 150 minutes. This again threatens to put pressure on the viability of PCS operators' business."
HK$80 = about US$9 for 150 minutes per month. That's 900 cents for 150 minutes = US6cents per minute. When they stop goofing around with silly monthly minute limits and get seriously competitive, prices will be much lower still. At these prices everyone can buy them in many countries and use anytime.
Meanwhile Eudora is measured by Media Metrix cunning monitoring:
newspage.com
Eudora is at number 48
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE) via NewsEdge Corporation -- Media Metrix today announced its third quarter ranking of the Top 50 most-used and owned software applications among PC users at home. Media Metrix is the only source of real-time, actual software ownership and usage at an installed base level, unlike previous rankings of application and utility software products that are based on sales of product through retail channels. With its patented PC Meter(tm) technology, Media Metrix delivers the first-ever software rankings based on what people actually use, as opposed to proxy indicators of what was purchased or what people remember they purchased.
Beyond the World Wide Web, Media Metrix provides invaluable insight into how people are actually using their computers - in addition to the web, it measures audience usage of proprietary online services, other ad-supported applications and software and hardware ownership and usage. Media Metrix' primary advantage is its unique PC user data retrieval method: its patented, proprietary PC Meter(tm) software technology. The PC Meter works with the computer OS to track and measure actual, real-time PC usage data and records detailed demographic information for each PC user.
Media Metrix, The PC Meter Company -- Top 50 Most Used Software
Q3 1998 At Home SoftUsage report
Application or Software Software Thousands of Percent or Utility Software Usage Owned Unique Users Reach
Ranking Ranking (000)
Microsoft Office 1 20 26,678 38%
Microsoft Word 2 21 22,323 32%
Microsoft Internet Explorer 3 19 19,797 28%
Microsoft Notepad 4 1 18,755 27%
Netscape Navigator/Communicator 5 34 16,008 23%
America Online 6 26 15,935 23%
Microsoft Works 7 28 13,663 20%
InstallShield InstallShield 8 6 13,287 19%
Microsoft Write/WordPad 9 2 12,683 18%
Microsoft Entertainment Pack 10 36 12,627 18%
Interplay Solitaire 11 24 12,424 18%
Microsoft Freecell 12 14 11,585 17%
RealNetworks RealPlayer 13 12 11,239 16%
Microsoft Paint 14 13 10,275 15%
Intuit Quicken 15 33 9,565 14%
Microsoft Excel 16 37 9,108 13%
Microsoft Defragmenter 17 9 7,679 11%
Microsoft Plus! 18 16 7,284 10%
Microsoft Exchange 19 22 6,798 10%
Microsoft Solitaire 20 49 6,739 10%
Microsoft Calculator 21 4 6,668 10%
Microsoft CD Player 22 18 6,561 9%
Corel WordPerfect 23 230 6,539 9%
Microsoft Outlook Express 24 71 6,472 9%
Microsoft Hearts Network 25 11 6,208 9%
Juno 26 63 6,171 9%
Microsoft Visual Basic 27 17 5,951 9%
Microsoft Minesweeper 28 5 5,488 8%
Microsoft Money 29 54 5,352 8%
Corel Office Professional 30 65 5,249 8%
Mirabilis ICQ 31 107 5,036 7%
Norton AntiVirus 32 70 4,922 7%
Apple QuickTime 33 15 4,876 7%
Microsoft Address Book 34 60 4,860 7%
Nico Mak Computing WinZip 35 53 4,840 7%
Broderbund Print Shop Deluxe 36 69 4,814 7%
Microsoft Media Player 37 3 4,566 7%
CyberMedia First Aid 38 58 4,498 6%
Network Associates VirusScan 39 74 4,222 6%
Microsoft Bookshelf 40 52 3,567 5%
Microsoft Outlook 41 73 3,512 5%
Adobe Acrobat Reader 42 38 3,269 5%
Norton Utilities 43 88 2,904 4%
Microsoft Golf 44 35 2,884 4%
Macromedia Director 45 51 2,882 4%
Microsoft Greetings Workshop 46 139 2,764 4%
Global Village Fax Works 47 80 2,699 4%
Qualcomm Eudora 48 84 2,683 4%
Berkeley Systems After Dark 49 119 2,619 4%
Microsoft Encarta 50 44 2,516 4%
Maybe somebody can make better sense of those numbers than I can. They all seem too small to me. Surely there are more than 36 million Explorer and Netscape users for example. And I thought there were about 10 million Eudora users.
Certainly Eudora has not been swamping the world as the email of choice. The built in browser emailers seem to win there.
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