Market Share Statistics

Hi RH community,
Any chance someone here could point me in the direction of
market share statistics for RoboHelp?
Anytime between now and say X5 would be great. I did some
some searching and haven't come up with much and your help would be
greatly appriciated.
Thank you,
M.V.

Welcome to the forum.
You're playing games with us, right? :-)
The problem with stats like that is who did the survey, what
questions were asked and who was asked.
On the Writers UA site there are various surveys. You have to
take into account the people aware of Writers UA and attending the
conferences are the more interested users and those working for
wealthier companies, not the whole market.
Tom Johnson is running a survey right now on his
http://idratherbewriting.com
site. He has posted on HATT that it was started more to test the
survey software. One finding I made is that it is possible to vote
more than once. Before anyone jumps up and down, I am not
suggesting anyone has done that to rig the results. Your question
was about surveys though and I am making the point that you have to
know it is a survey that can be relied on.
So you end up with the surveys done by companies who
understand the many pitfalls of surveys. They are expensive so
probably undertaken for the software vendors and not published.
Are you asking because you want to go for the most popular
tool? If so, I would respectfully suggest that is not the best
approach. No one tool is best for everyone. If not, perhaps if you
tell us why you ask and then maybe we can help in a different way.

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