Ah, but the folks at macromedia are smart and savvy about their
marketing... this is why Dreamweaver owns the market, they found out what
we wanted, and they built it for us... Now if you accept that, what do they
have to gain by their new design?

Increased ubiquity of the latest flash player perhaps?

Wait and see how much the negative feedback we've left, (you did leave
feedback, right?) and see.

Michael






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John Dowdell wrote:
> At 3:50 PM 3/6/3, Al Sparber wrote:
>> John Dowdell wrote:
>>> At 1:28 PM 3/6/3, Stephanie Sullivan wrote:
>>>> Do MM Stats REALLY say that Mac users are 5%? I would HIGHLY doubt
>>>> it.
>>>
>>> 6.89% of site visitors, in stats I saw from mid-02.
>>
>> That's a monumental drop from the previous stats posted here. Would
>> that make Mac versions of Macromedia software on the verge of being
>> "fringe" too?
>
> Macromedia site gets about 1,000,000 visitors to content pages a day,
> but about 4,000,000 player downloads a day. "Site visitors" is not
> isomorphic to "software customers".

Well, John, then those stats are meaningless to the issue at hand.
Macromedia should be designing its site based upon its customers. That's
bad marketing by any measure. Real visitors to MM are certainly not
those passing through because they need a Flash Player. And I guess if
MM thinks they can capture any of those folks and get them to buy
something then it really would be better to not have an automatic update
of the Flash Player... although those probably count as hits and visits.
This is an eyeopener for me.


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