Partial survey results
We asked 10 questions in our recent mergelab survey (because that’s how many SurveyMonkey gives you for free). 4 questions were product-related, which I won’t share here because of all the spies reading my blog. 2 were text boxes to write stuff down, which I won’t share here to protect anonymity. And 4 of them were sort of “demographic” except that I didn’t want to waste my precious few questions on rank and serial number (age, sex, married, kids, city, country) and also because I hate being asked those questions all the time.
The answers to those 4 questions - related to email, blogging, platforms and social networks - were kind of interesting so I thought I would share them here. To give some perspective, these are responses from a mixture of friends, family and colleagues of a trio of professional 30-something software guys; I’m not pretending this is a representative sample of the world. But it’s more diverse than you might think - ages range from college students to 65+ and though it’s mostly Seattle family and colleagues there’s some geographic diversity in the mix as well.
A few surprises:
- More local mail clients (Outlook/POP3/IMAP) than I would have expected. I had assumed that a supermajority of people, even in my friends and family demographic, would have migrated to webmail by now for their personal email - for convenience, spam protection, etc. Apparently that’s not the case.
- More Macs than I would have guessed. 37% to be exact. So my approx. 40/60 count of Mac vs. PC laptops in the local coffee shops is for real. In fact halfway through the survey I decided we needed to test on a Mac because of all the potential users who were on that platform.
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