Anyway... what struck me about this article is the quote above... did they take into consideration that iTunes now practically mandates that you go to the store? Launch it for the first time and you're there. That isn't traffic driven by desire, it is a default preference. With iTunes 6.0.2, it even keeps the "Ministore" open while you're listening to music. Does that count as a "visit" to the ITMS? I am not complaining here.. I just wonder if the "growth" is truly consumer driven, or Apple preference driven.
-Brett
Possibly when you first installed it, it took you to the Music Store (although I don't remember that happening to me when I did it). In any case, if you've left it on library, podcast, or a playlist, I'm sure it doesn't take you to the Music Store again unless you actually click on it.
So the number of "mandated" visits can't be that big. And those are certainly not counted when they report 14% of active users regularly visit.
So I don't fit your demographic, I drive a Chevy, for one they are the best trucks available, and secondly they are desighned and built by hard working Americans! I myself am a blue collar american, but I love my apple and I love my iPod. There's no better way to handle a 16 hour shift in a loader filling trucks than an iPod and Bose noise cancelling headphones. Now I have to admit I've been thinking about buying my girlfriend a subaru STI so that I can drive it when I'm not working. Foreigners make a decent car, but you can't buy an un-amercan truck that can pull like a chevy with a duramax so I guess I do fit the stereotype... my truck has a turbo.
>apple users are 2.2 times as likely to buy a foreign car
iTunes Stores are present in many countries - it, as well as the Internet as a whole, is multinational - considering this, the use of the term "foreign car" (obviously from an US perspective) is strange.
Perhaps 100% of all German iTunes users have a VW or Audi - then Apple users obviously buy domestic made cars...
Just got to chime in about the car thing. My wife drives 2004 Chevy Colorado ( Mac User + iTunes) I drive a Pontiac 2004 GTO also a 79' Trans Am restored from the ground up (Mac User + iTunes) Business Partner Dodge Ram 1500 (Mac User + iTunes) Four of my freinds... Harley Davidson, Charger, Ford F-150 and last but not least Camaro SS (Mac Users + iTunes). It also maybe the area of the country we live.
Are you sure about that? Women have fewer accidents.
I agree that the comparison isn't fair. Not only that, men are responsible for a gargantuan share of fatal accidents. If you get the DoT information, it seems the only way men as a group can be considered better drivers is when you lump in the long haul truckers, which is almost male-only, racking up an astronomical number of miles for the male category. Truckers, male or female, are often better because of experience, often racking up millions of miles with generally an exceptional safety record.
On the VW thing, I've noticed some synchronicity between the Apple brand and the VW brand.
Both seem to garner more than their share of animosity from people that prefer other brands, based on some kind of emotional response to the perception that Apple/VW owners "care more about looks than performance", or "are willing to pay a premium for a misdirected sense of superiority" or, more generally, for picking a car/computer for reasons other than some imagined set of "robust" criteria, like raw power, or ease of mods, or stripped down functionality.
There's even that weird ambient notion that both VWs and Macs are "sorta gay", or "for women" presumably because real men eschew nice design.
Now admittedly, VW just came through a spate of reliability woes, but even here this is used as evidence of "style over substance".
I drive a Jetta because I really like the sum total experience, which is why I use a Mac. I certainly don't intend that as an attack on, or a demonstration of my superiority over, PC users and Honda drivers.
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Originally posted by melgross
Except for Hp ...
So, what do you think?
I think it's HP, dag gummit!
Originally posted by brett_x
Anyway... what struck me about this article is the quote above... did they take into consideration that iTunes now practically mandates that you go to the store? Launch it for the first time and you're there. That isn't traffic driven by desire, it is a default preference. With iTunes 6.0.2, it even keeps the "Ministore" open while you're listening to music. Does that count as a "visit" to the ITMS? I am not complaining here.. I just wonder if the "growth" is truly consumer driven, or Apple preference driven.
-Brett
Possibly when you first installed it, it took you to the Music Store (although I don't remember that happening to me when I did it). In any case, if you've left it on library, podcast, or a playlist, I'm sure it doesn't take you to the Music Store again unless you actually click on it.
So the number of "mandated" visits can't be that big. And those are certainly not counted when they report 14% of active users regularly visit.
Originally posted by Ichiban_jay
sounds like apple users are 2.2 times as likely to buy a foreign car.
Not Apple....Frequent iTunes users....if Apple users had 14% of internet usage...now that would be an article.
iTunes Stores are present in many countries - it, as well as the Internet as a whole, is multinational - considering this, the use of the term "foreign car" (obviously from an US perspective) is strange.
Perhaps 100% of all German iTunes users have a VW or Audi - then Apple users obviously buy domestic made cars...
;-)
There's always someone. They hear, "Statistics show..."
They reply, "Oh yeah?! Well I don't fit those statitstics. I'm this and that. So there."
Generally, men are better drivers, but there ARE good women drivers.
Generally, women are better caretakers, but there ARE good male caretakers.
Generally, Mac users are more creative than PC users. There are a lot of creative PC users.
Generally, seatbelts are best. Sometimes seatbelts are a bad thing.
So you're different. Great. You're still not disproving the norm.
Originally posted by CosmoNut
Generally, men are better drivers
Are you sure about that? Women have fewer accidents.
Originally posted by e1618978
Are you sure about that? Women have fewer accidents.
I agree that the comparison isn't fair. Not only that, men are responsible for a gargantuan share of fatal accidents. If you get the DoT information, it seems the only way men as a group can be considered better drivers is when you lump in the long haul truckers, which is almost male-only, racking up an astronomical number of miles for the male category. Truckers, male or female, are often better because of experience, often racking up millions of miles with generally an exceptional safety record.
Originally posted by ThinkExpensive
Not Apple....Frequent iTunes users....if Apple users had 14% of internet usage...now that would be an article.
yeah, I know, I MENT to say APPLE
Both seem to garner more than their share of animosity from people that prefer other brands, based on some kind of emotional response to the perception that Apple/VW owners "care more about looks than performance", or "are willing to pay a premium for a misdirected sense of superiority" or, more generally, for picking a car/computer for reasons other than some imagined set of "robust" criteria, like raw power, or ease of mods, or stripped down functionality.
There's even that weird ambient notion that both VWs and Macs are "sorta gay", or "for women" presumably because real men eschew nice design.
Now admittedly, VW just came through a spate of reliability woes, but even here this is used as evidence of "style over substance".
I drive a Jetta because I really like the sum total experience, which is why I use a Mac. I certainly don't intend that as an attack on, or a demonstration of my superiority over, PC users and Honda drivers.