Comments on: stupid Scion

By: Sarah Bluehouse

Sarah Bluehouse — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:08:15 +0000

I wonder if they are using platform limitations to skew survey results?

Specifically in the areas of, oh, environmental concerns, and other “hip” causes, instead of aerodynamics and ability to put skis and golf-clubs somesuch in the trunk.

By: Bill Bart

Bill Bart — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:22:45 +0000

D
“Hello, Firefox and Sarari! They are so yesterday. Try Camino with your Mac and enjoy the speed.

Arthur Radley

By: Hazel

Hazel — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:46:02 +0000

Words fail me — and that doesn’t often happen!
Windows 98 for heaven’s sake — what planet are they living on?

By: Sam Jackson

Sam Jackson — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:02:40 +0000

I use IEtab for FF.

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[and I am on Vista >__>]

By: highermath

highermath — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:00:51 +0000

Stupid designers aside, you can avoid taking the Windows box out of the closet with IEs4linux and IEs4mac available at http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page

On Mac, this also requires the X11 app, which, I think, is on the OS X install disk.

By: Tex

Tex — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:07:50 +0000

As an aside, Scions might be targeted to your demographic on the West Coast, but on the East Coast they’re targeted to working class urban minorities.

My suspicion is that the company just has a really, really incompetent web designer.

By: Sue W

Sue W — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:39:00 +0000

Perhaps they are only interested in the people that are less-informed enough to use IE/Windows. It would certainly skew their “survey”.

By: AJ Cann

AJ Cann — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:28:55 +0000

The “dumbass at Scion” is the marketing company they outsourced it to.
Time to move on.

By: zephoria

zephoria — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:28:13 +0000

Readers of this blog may be humored to know that, of those of you who don’t read this through feeds, somewhere between 50-75% of you read this blog through “alternative” readers (even though only 15-25% of you are on “alternative” OSes).

[I'd actually bet that teenagers are more likely to use IE/Windows than 20-somethings.]

By: Tyler Banfield

Tyler Banfield — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:12:44 +0000

Has anyone at Scion ever heard of a thing called analytics? I have a site that appeals to the general 12-20 y/o crowd and the “alternative browsers” have a 25% share. So, I would guess that the “alternative browser” share for a site that targets the Scion demographic would be over 60%.