When Targeting Early Adopters – Say No To Windows

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Kelly McNeill writes “Ask any advertising executive which is the best way to get the word out and he will repeat the old addage suggesting that there is strength in large numbers. Simply put, targeting the largest group brings the greatest return on your advertising investment. As far as software development is concerned, many people assume that Windows is that demographic because of its size, but this isn’t always true.

Gary Lawrence Murphy submitted the following editorial to osOpinion/osViews, which suggests that Windows may be the right platform for conservative applications pre-installed on end-user machines, but for revolutionary services, nearly every other operating system will bring the greatest return on investment.”

Link: osviews.com