[ale] Comcast Caps Data at 250G/Month

[Jim Philips]

On Sunday 07 September 2008 07:21:18 Jim Lynch wrote:
> Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > At some point we (ALEers) need to consider the fact that we may just
> > not be the target demographic that Comcast wishes to have as
> > customers.    Perhaps Comcast feels they can do very well only dealing
> > with the customers that don't maximize their usage.   A lot of
> > companies work this way, some times it just makes good business sense
> > to ignore/boot a small segment of your customers.
> >
> > -Jim P.
>
> A bank I used to have an account with is that way.  I complained that
> their website wasn't friendly to Firefox and when I finally got to talk
> with their IT guy, he said, "Our records show that 99% of the people
> using our site are running IE"  Duh!  He didn't quite understand what
> that really meant, or maybe he did.
>
> Jim.

Along the same lines: One bloggers reaction to the release of Google's Chrome 
was:

"So what!? 25% of the browsing public is still using IE6."

The reason for this shocking statistic? That's the default browser for Windows 
XP. Most computer and Internet consumers are like our cats and dogs. They eat 
what you feed 'em.