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51% of US Households Own An Apple Product

forty2j said:
The sample size DOES seem low to be giving regional and income bracket breakdowns though. The margin of error on those would be much higher.
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Take a stats class/google it and you will see that that is a "large" enough sample.
 
9 Apple devices in my house.
It started when my mom saw a clean look of iMac (no messy wires) and bought it. Then I bought iPod touch 2G. After 6 months, I gave it to my bro and bought iPhone 3G (and feel regret for not getting 3GS). My youngest bro get iPod nano for free but rarely used it. I bought him iPod touch 3G.
Time pass, I bought MacBook white (last of the line) and iPod touch 4G to help my iPhone 3G. Then iPhone 4s for my mom (I am not that type to give her my old device and enjoy a new one). And recently, after seeing iPad 2 is not slower than iPad 3, my bro bought iPad 2.
All of these happen in just over 3 years.
 
Sawtooth G4
2006 Mac Pro
2011 27" iMac
2010 Macbook Pro
2006 Macbook Pro (Wife)
iPhone 4
iPhone 4s (Wife)
iPad
iPod Classic
iPod Shuffle
2 20" ACDs
3 ATVs
 
I became an Apple customer before the iEntertainment Era. PowerBooks & Quadra's were the tools I enjoyed for work & personal. So it was only natural to buy into iPods, then iPhones, & iPads.

Considering the massive success in the iTunes universe, I'm quite surprised that the latest surveys reveal a paltry 9% +/- market share for Apple computers. Yet I knew the moment Steve all but declared computers dead with his announcement of the "Post-PC Era" the world knew his heart was now attached to the high margin, high volume world of consumer electronics.

Pushing Apples products into Walmart, Best Buy, Target & others only reinforces it's all about mass market dollars. A game Apple has down cold.
 
The average home in the South owns 1.2 Apple products, the smallest in any region. The average household in the country owns 1.6 devices.

Wait is this to say people in the south actually have electricity and don't ride round in horse, I my friends am stupefied. ;)

They did not ask me, Live in the South, total products in house are 11. Life is better with Apple.

It all started with and iMac G4 :) I drooled all over the mac the first time I started it. Oh was OS X so sweet. Fond memories.
 
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Unstoppable.

Apple always had the best approach to their products. Where they fell down in the past was in not competing aggressively enough from a business point of view. (MS won the day there)
They are now applying the same cleverness to the business side of things, and are being just as successful as they have been with their products.
The picture is complete.
Apple are unstoppable.
I believe we are going to see astounding things in the next few years.
Record-breaking numbers - and no competitors anywhere near them.
 
I have 22

I have 22 Apple-branded DVD-R discs! (They came if 5 packs, so I've given away 3.)

From the early days shortly after Compaq introduced DVD burners to the world, followed by Apple. The Apple blank discs were half the price of other brands.
 
I, a poor college student, have 4 devices. (Thats what i spend all my summer salaries on lol). If i include the rest of my family we have 8 total. This of course doesn't include all the apple stuff my dad keeps in our basement because its sentimental. apple 2, 2c, 3 printers, and a bunch of other things that he's never taken out to show me before.

Off topic here but why doesn't apple make printers anymore??
 
"Planned obsolescence has always been a part of the technology industries sales model, but Apple has taken it to a whole new level."

It has seemed like that from time to time but it's more like that Apple has been at the forefront of having the inclination and the ability to push and pursue technology and innovation, and unlike the standard business model they don't hold back products for years simply to milk each generation for all it's worth; they're generally so good that they pay off right away. I've been using their products since the late 80's, and while it used to be frustrating knowing that anytime a computer was bought that a more powerful model wasn't far off, who would ever knock them for releasing advancement after advancement after advancement?
 
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I own 2 of the 8 total devices we have in my family, not counting the 2 iMac G3s no one uses and the separate install discs for iLife, iWork, Leopard, Snow Leopard, etc. :cool:
 
Woah. I don't live in the States, so what I have doesn't matter in the survey, but wow..

9 = MBP 15", 1st gen MBA, 24" iMac, 2 white MB, 2 iPhones, 2 iPads.

My wife and I currently share 9 Apple products. Some of them are pretty old.. so that means I will have to get some new stuff for the family.. Yay.
 
Jaredly said:
I, a poor college student, have 4 devices. (Thats what i spend all my summer salaries on lol). If i include the rest of my family we have 8 total. This of course doesn't include all the apple stuff my dad keeps in our basement because its sentimental. apple 2, 2c, 3 printers, and a bunch of other things that he's never taken out to show me before.

Off topic here but why doesn't apple make printers anymore??
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Apple technically never made printers. The Laserwriter Select 360 was HP guts rebranded as an Apple. The Imagewriter was a rebranded C. Itoh product. One of the most important things Apple learned from the 90s was to strip down and focus on the core competencies.

As for the primary article, I think this underscores my point I've made in several discussions about Apple's future cash flow potential that available share of wallet is shrinking.... I know, I know, China's a huge market. Yes and no... they spend about 1/15th what the US does on electronics despite four times the population. What that means is that Apple will continue to be profitable and turn out strong results, but their growth rate will shrink as a mathematical inevitability even if their marginal revenue still increases.
 
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Avatar74 said:
Apple technically never made printers. The Laserwriter Select 360 was HP guts rebranded as an Apple. The Imagewriter was a rebranded C. Itoh product. One of the most important things Apple learned from the 90s was to strip down and focus on the core competencies.

As for the primary article, I think this underscores my point I've made in several discussions about Apple's future cash flow potential that available share of wallet is shrinking.... I know, I know, China's a huge market. Yes and no... they spend about 1/15th what the US does on electronics despite almost twice the population. What that means is that Apple will continue to be profitable and turn out strong results, but their growth rate will shrink as a mathematical inevitability even if their marginal revenue still increases.
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Correction: 4.3 times the US population
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population)

But regardless, I get your point that the US still spend more on electronics.
 
Avatar74 said:
My mistake... been a long day. Wizard with Excel, terrible with math in my head (for that reason). Corrected my original post.
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+1

Used to be able to do long division mentally - starting when I got my SR-10, it's decayed to where I reach for electronics for simple addition.

set /a 16*1024​
 
Macbook Pro
Macbook Air
iPhone 4S
iPhone
"New" iPad
iPod
Apple Wirelss Keyboard
Apple Trackpad
2nd Gen ATV
3rd Gen ATV
 
In my house...

5 iPhones ( 1 4S 2 4's and 2 3G'S)
6 Macs ( 2 iMacs, 1 Mac Mini, 1 MacBook, 1 PowerMac G5, and 1 PowerBook G4)
4 iPads ( 1 iPad 3rd Gen, 2 iPad 2's, and iPad 1st Gen)
2 Apple TV's Second Gen
Various iPods.

:apple::D
 
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