[Ti] Market Share: 2.3% -- That's NOT good press, coupled with the loss

[Daniel L Kegan, Kegan & Kegan, Ltd.]

I did a review of an early Delorme Mac StreetAtlas with its GPS unit.
Good idea, clunky implementation,
a few fixes would have made it much better.

My conclusion, Delorme blaming its
•objective– analysis when a major part of its
lack of sales in the Mac market likely was
poor design, poor programming, and insufficient to poor testing,
especially with Mac users.

Daniel Kegan * daniel at KeganLaw.com * Kegan & Kegan, Ltd
We identify, develop, and protect intangible business assets
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On Tue, Jan 21, 2003, 12:17:05 AM GMT PowerBook G4 Titanium List wrote:
>From: "Greg Chapel" <gchapel at worldnet.att.net>
>Subject: Re: [Ti] Market Share: 2.3% -- That's NOT good press, coupled
> with  the loss
>
> I had sent an inquiry to
>Delorme software, asking if an OS X version of Street Atlas and Map X were
>in the works.
>******* Reply from Delorme below *******************
>DeLorme has long enjoyed the support of Mac users who chose to use Street
>Atlas USA.  Recently we performed a thorough investigation into continuing
>this support in the form of new releases specifically for the Macintosh OS X
>platform.   The investigation included extensive discussions with
>programmers, business partners and Apple Developer Relations.
>Unfortunately the results lead to the business decision that the enormous
>investment required would be very risky and would not return sufficient
>revenue to meet our business goals.  This is strictly a business decision
>and is understandably disappointing to previous version users, as well as
>DeLorme and Apple.
>At this time we do not have plans to release any new Mac-based titles.
>ALLEN G
>DELORME DIRECT SALES