Comments on: Gizmo Project hit with Mac Users

By: Om Malik on Broadband : » SIPphone Gets VC Cash

Om Malik on Broadband : » SIPphone Gets VC Cash — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 07:29:30 +0000

[...] While it is no Skype, The Gizmo Project has still managed to get 400,000 registered users, of which nearly 29% are Mac users, Robertson says. About 2% of Gizmo Project are Linux desktop users. “In the end our adherence to SIP will pay off because it will allow us to offer many services easily,” says Robertson. One of the benefits is the ability to connect directly to other SIP-based services such as Earthlink’s VoIP service. [...]

By: Om Malik’s Broadband Blog » Some Changes at SIPphone

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog » Some Changes at SIPphone — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 00:05:23 +0000

[...] lesome routers and firewalls which is a big deal for SIP software,” he says. So far, there have been 100,000 downloads of the Gizmo software. (Why does the skeptic in [...]

By: 360east | Ahmad Humeid’s blog and podcast » Blog Archive » Project Gizmo: An “open standards” Skype replacement?

Sat, 16 Jul 2005 23:24:50 +0000

[...] after I managed to get them all on Skype! One last point here: technology pundit Om Malik writes in his blog that, so far, 30% of the downloads of Gizmo have been by Mac us [...]

By: jon.

jon. — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:50:06 +0000

—–Given that Mac is less than 5% of the computer market, it is interesting to see the adoption rates are much higher—–

actually you are talking about two different things, the Mac Sales every quarter is less than 5% of the computing market, but Apple is only in a small segment of the computing market, in the Home, where Apple actually has a market, Macs represent atleast 10% of the installed base of computers actually being used, especially on the internet.

then if you include the work place, (which your market is probably not in yet) then Mac’s share of installed base drops to less than half this, to about 4%…

By: OS X Code (r,s) » The advantage of developing for OS X

OS X Code (r,s) » The advantage of developing for OS X — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:24:45 +0000

[...] ware developer. Now how could that be? Om Malik from Business 2.0 has a good answer with a follow up to this question: I think these companies are focusing [...]

By: Ben Liong

Ben Liong — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 02:50:09 +0000

While what you’re saying is true, it does only apply to non-enterprise applications for now. Apple has chosen to avoid the whole enterprise market and focus on end-user experience, and it’s only natural to assume that the platform would lead startups to the same direction.

Apple is able to make their users excited about their products, and whatever else that works on them. This excitement is something you can’t get anywhere else and hard to come by.

By: pwb

pwb — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 01:04:34 +0000

The “3% Mac marketshare” thing is wholy misleading. If you look at share by personal use or by people who get to choose which computer they use (as opposed to forced by IT), the share is much larger.

By: The Apple Blog » Entrepreneurs: The Mac Opportunity

The Apple Blog » Entrepreneurs: The Mac Opportunity — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 23:57:39 +0000

[...] Holland Om Malik just got the inside scoop from a sipphone.com executive of the growing success of The Gizmo Project, w [...]

By: PXLated

PXLated — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:18:38 +0000

They did a nice job of it…Styled somewhat like iChat.
It should probably be the podCasters phone of choice as you don’t have to jump through hoops to record a conversation…unlike Skype.