Tangent, but is that really considered the largest IT area in the U.S.? Surprised to hear this, would have assumed Silicon Valley/Palo Alto etc.
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Tangent, but is that really considered the largest IT area in the U.S.? Surprised to hear this, would have assumed Silicon Valley/Palo Alto etc.
The Federal Gov't alone employs approximately 2,000,000 people of which around 80% are in and around the DC metro area. The number of contractors and businesses that work for the gov't are enormous. Many of these are in the IT profession, especially the number of contractors. In my office alone there are between 4,000 and 6,000 PCs. I can't go into more detail.
From US News:
"It turns out the nation's capital needs geeks. From network engineer to systems administrator, Washington has among the highest number of openings in the nation. Washington ranks in the top five for volume of job openings on Dice.com. The Washington metro area's economy has outperformed much of the nation, thanks to the stabilizing force of governmentparticularly a new, popular, and active government."
The above quote is just for the DC metro area what does not include the entire Baltimore, DC, northern VA corridor. Silicon valley may have it beat but I think that may vary from year to year. The gov't doesn't layoff, it grows, and uses tons of contractors. Business week said that the average tech salary in DC is between $95,000 and $100,000.
"Subgroups of consumers with incomes of over $100,000 (80 percent) and in the 18-34 age group (78 percent) also registered at the top of the list for iPad awareness."
those are 2 different groups. The actual report says
report found that awareness is highest among current Apple owners, (82 percent), consumers with $100,000 or greater income (80 percent), and 18-34 year olds (78 percent).
3 different groups, not one group. I can't find any place in the report where they combine those groups. I'm happy to be wrong, just show me where.
http://www.npd.com/press/releases/press_100326.html
My apologies, I quoted what was in the thread and didn't read the article. The original thread did not have a comma after the $100,000. The original thread said $100,000 and 18-34 thereby implying 1 group. I read it as 78% of the 80% were 18-34.
No apologies necessary. The title of the thread combines them all into one group. From the report itself, we don't even know if this super group exists, let alone their awareness of the iPad. I'd like to believe they got the data set from NPD and ran their own analysis, but I fear they did not.
Thanks. I believe the iPad will be a huge success across all segments of society. Look at all of the people (newbies) who have recently joined the forum and thats a small population of Apple product owners. Anyone could have guessed that Apple product owners just might have heard of the iPad since we do get emails from Apple and if you have any MAC product and use Apple Mail, it automatically has the Apple Hot News RSS feed. I will be eventually purchasing the iPad. I want to play with one first.
I agree with you. I think it will be a big hit. In my flashforward I had one. But mine had a camera
I just feel like this data said some interesting things, but rather than focus on them, the MR author invented a conclusion not supported by the cited data. That stuff is just maddening to me.
Here's the thing, Apple really made a good decision when they chose to use iPhone OS on the tablet, think about it this way, iPhone OS is designed to run on mobile devices, it's optimized to do so, with lower power requirements than a full blows desktop/laptop OS, which is an advantage over other tablets since most others usually run Windows.
As to its advantage over an iPod touch? Well, as some people pointed out, screen size really DOES make a difference. It's really hard to do good presentation work, or flowcharts, image editing, movie editing or what-have-you on a 4 inch screen, the extra room makes these tasks possible, and plus, this thing CAN do just about everything a computer can do, yes it can't use flash, and this is a drawback, but i believe that all the extra screen space allows for way more possibilities than an iPod/iPhone, so it works out.
As to its advantage over an iPod touch? Well, as some people pointed out, screen size really DOES make a difference. It's really hard to do good presentation work, or flowcharts, image editing, movie editing or what-have-you on a 4 inch screen, the extra room makes these tasks possible, and plus, this thing CAN do just about everything a computer can do, yes it can't use flash, and this is a drawback, but i believe that all the extra screen space allows for way more possibilities than an iPod/iPhone, so it works out.
Yep
Thats me... Oh wait I own 3 PCs on a home network and an iPhone and an iPod touch. Oh and I am 63, I guess thats not me. Besides that only 5 of ten things on my home network. But yes I am anxiously awaiting my iPad which I don't need but do want and will use.
Thats me... Oh wait I own 3 PCs on a home network and an iPhone and an iPod touch. Oh and I am 63, I guess thats not me. Besides that only 5 of ten things on my home network. But yes I am anxiously awaiting my iPad which I don't need but do want and will use.
