Linked by Tony Steidler-Dennison on Mon 7th Jul 2008 18:18 UTC, submitted by Dale Smoker
While I was trawling through Net Applications' operating system share trend data for the past 24 months, something struck me. June 08 marked a big month for Linux. The OS saw the largest increase in market share for the whole 2 year period - a growth of 0.12%.
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RE[6]: Comment by satan666
by Johann Chua on Tue 8th Jul 2008 05:48
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RE[7]: Comment by satan666
by kaiwai on Tue 8th Jul 2008 05:55
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I think they meant that the typical user doesn't need Photoshop to begin with. It's a niche professional application.
Well, if Photoshop is a 'niche professional applications' - there seems to be a very big niche market. The average end user would most likely use Photoshop Elements if anything. With that being said, with the increasing availability of academic software out there, there are a lot of people (rightly or wrongly) who run Photoshop because it can be obtained cheaply.
Photoshop isn't the solution though, and it frustrates me that Linux advocates on here who cant see that it is being used as an example of a lack of mainstream big name desktop software vendors for Linux. As soon as Photoshop is mentioned there is foaming at the mouth and claims of "oh, they don't need that!".
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Of Photoshop? The typical user probably does more than I do. The "Typical User" of Photoshop is professionals and not the kind who download it over torrent networks.
Most "typical users" do some pretty heavy things in all the apps I listed. On a daily basis.
The "typical user" line applies to Office, not professional graphics, video or photo workhorses.
(unless of course you're just being sarcastic
Edited 2008-07-07 23:51 UTC