[Sigia-l] Is email dead, too?

[Jonathan Baker-Bates]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org 
> [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Ziya Oz
> Sent: 19 July 2007 19:00
> To: SIGIA-L
> Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Is email dead, too?
> 
> Jonathan Baker-Bates:
> 
> > Why are they sacrificing ubiquity?
> 
> When all/most of your buddies are on the same platform, 
> ubiquity is redefined for you. 
> 
> Just a few years ago if your page worked even exclusively on 
> IE you had ubiquity. Today 30-40% of European users are on 
> Firefox. Before that it was the AOL walled garden. It seems 
> every generation redefines its own version of ubiquity. :-)

True. In 1872 when I was in the Cserve walled garden, online comms were
so exclusive that ubiquity was irrelevant anyway (and The WELL was full
of hippies so it didn't matter). In 2007 Everyone I have ever known in
life seems to be on Facebook, so now it's irrelevant for a different
reason.

Jonathan

PS: I'm afraid you're mistaken if you think FF anywhere near 30% in
Europe (at least on any major sites). More like 5-12% for non-geek
sites, with other Gecko agents totalling perhaps 3% on top of that. 


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