"I can attest that nobody uses applets anymore"
http://danielrapp.github.com/mcstats-analysis/
Minecraft disagrees - you know, one of the best selling games of the last year or two... 9.4m copies sold. And according to this analysis 33% of people play it in an applet. To me this sounds absolutely insane. But we should never underestimate the insanity of the general populous.