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In article <jcgroves-0707951549180001@203.12.52.32>,
comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage wrote:

> Iomega's Zip Drive has become the hottest selling item of computer
> hardware to hit the market in years. I am researching information on the
> relative level of demand for Zip drives generated by Mac and PC users.
> Although Zip is available in both parallel and SCSI versions, the PC world
> does not seem anywhere near as excited by Zip as the Mac world.  My
> hypothesis is that Mac users account for a disproportionately high share
> of the demand.
> 
> If this is true, why is it so? 
> 
> � Does the average Mac user accumulate far more MB of files than the
> average PC user?  Because of the Mac's huge superiority in ease of use and
> plug-and-play simplicity, I suspect that the average Mac user is
> encouraged to try many more software applications and to use them more
> frequently. The Mac's superiority in graphics applications would also
> encourage a far greater proportion of Mac users to operate graphics, video
> and sound applications, which generate huge file volumes.
> 
> � Before Zip, Mac users probably were not able to buy external storage
> capacity as cheaply as PC users. Extra hard drive capacity seems to have
> been significantly cheaper for PC users, at least partly due to the wide
> range of IDE drives available for the PC.  Mac users also do not have
> access to low cost tape backup systems, which are common for the PC. The
> lowest cost option for Mac users was probably SyQuest cartridge drives,
> which have been far too expensive for most home and SOHO users. SyQuest's
> reputation for poor drive and cartridge reliability has already been
> debated in these newsgroups
> 
> Can anyone post anecdotal evidence on the relative level of Mac vs PC
> demand for Zip drives and disks?  Perhaps this only emerges in terms of
> orders for SCSI vs parallel Zips, with the further complication of having
> to estimate the Mac vs PC split within the SCSI buyers. The split between
> Mac and PC formatted disks could also provide some indication, but end
> users are no doubt buying whatever disks they can find in the shops and
> reformating them if necessary.
> 
> Let's hear what others think on these topics.
> 
> -- 
> John Groves
> NetSpace Online Systems, Melbourne, Australia
> jcgroves@netspace.net.au
I remember reading in MacWeek that while Apple on represented 9-11%of the PC market
the Mac represented 20-25% of the software market. This would go along with the idea that
Mac users try out more software. Heck that's why I bought mine.
-- 
Marston Gould
m.j.gould@larc.nasa.gov
Utilization Analysis Branch
Advanced Space Concepts Division
NASA Langley Research Center