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People, particularly the most desirable group aged 18-24, are watching less TV and spending more time online.

In sum, between 2011 and 2016, Q4 traditional TV viewing by 18-24-year-olds dropped by almost 10 hours a week, or by roughly 1 hour and 25 minutes per day. In percentage terms, Q4 traditional TV viewing by 18-24-year-olds was down by 7.1% year-over-year and has now fallen by 39% since 2011. In other words, in the space of 5 years, almost 40% of this age group’s traditional TV viewing time has migrated to other activities or streaming.

http://www.marketingcharts.com...

You can count on most old people to keep doing what they're doing (aiming the clicker at the teevee) up until they die, or get sent to a home and someone takes the clicker away from them. However, "TV viewing by 18-24-year-olds [...] has now fallen by 38% since 2011." (Oct. 5, 2016) And "In 2015, Netflix accounted for about half of the overall 3% decline in TV viewing time among U.S. audiences [...] Total viewing of networks from Time Warner, Scripps Networks Interactive, AMC Networks and Discovery Communications rose in 2015. A+E Networksâ(TM) viewing hours declined 15%, Viacom fell 13%, and NBCUniversal and Disney each dropped 5% overall." (March 3, 2016) So it looks like they are faring quite poorly indeed, and Netflix specifically is eating their lunch.

US message volume was 2.19 trillion times in 2012 (a 5% decline from 2011) this is equivalent to 6 billion each day. article

I think article states you case very well:

http://www.marketingcharts.com/television/primetime-tv-hour-includes-41-commercials-9434/

The better question would be WHY is Gateway sitting in the corner? I'd argue its because their quality and service went to shit and ran off their customers. too many are trying to play Dell's "Lets sell some cheap shit!" game and frankly it just doesn't work. Cheap shit is just that, cheap shit, and many folks don't like getting burned by a laptop or desktop that barely lasts beyond the warranty.

The last numbers I could find in chart form is 2011 which was 350 million units sold which is ANYTHING but a dead market. I'm sure someone will point out the higher number of cell phones in the chart but frankly other than iPhone I've found most folks treat those as disposable. Other than the "i" products there is pretty much ZERO brand loyalty whereas you get a good rep in the PC market and you can build some loyalty there.

While adding those other markets is a fine idea and a company should have more than a single product Apotheker was frankly an idiot for talking about exiting the PC business and there is no telling how many customers he spooked off with that stupidity. Not only are their PC sales making a solid 6-8% profit but it also helps them to sell more printers thanks to bundle deals. Funny how many think Apotheker was right, yet is IBM doing better than they were before? last I checked they were still cutting more and more from the payroll while Lenovo has been enjoying nice steady 7% profits last i checked.

Frankly its THAT attitude that is destroying American business because all act like profits should be "iMoney or bust!" when all you get is just that, bust. Sure they won't make iMoney on their PC line but profits is profits and trying to fight their way into a completely different market while killing a successful line was just a retarded as hell idea and frankly I'm not surprised that Apotheker got the boot.

Very good and interesting data. I wonder if "per user" is per node, or per literal user. I knew Korea used more than us, but not by that much. Maybe 300gb is adequate, for now. That said, it means that the 300gb limit is specifically in place for the outlying data points (mega-consumers). I don't know if I like ever having a limit, but I suppose it's not as unfair as it seems at face value.

I do wonder though - if 2 hours of streaming is ~4gb, that's 150 hours of video per month. According to this: http://www.marketingcharts.com/television/tv-still-primary-video-medium-but-mobile-exhibits-fastest-growth-21067/nielsen-monthly-time-spent-feb-2012jpg/ we spend 150 (almost) hours per month watching TV. It seems reasonable that as streaming takes the place of plain old TV (and as to-the-node pipes get bigger), our consumption will increase pretty dramatically.

If you were to check the actual numbers, you'd discover that the rich pay way more than their fair share. The top 10% richest americans pay half of all taxes, while half the country pays no income tax at all.

I think that statistic just demonstrates how crazy, out-of-whack rich the top 10% really are. They pay the majority of the taxes because they have the majority of the money.

According to this page the top 10% hold about 75% of the nations wealth: Wealth Distribution Seems like if we're talking about "fair shares" then they should be paying about 75% of our taxes and not just 50%.

Hell just look up "Broke drivers" or any variation thereof on Ubuntu, the "Linux for humans" forum. I did recently and quit counting at over 14 THOUSAND hits!

I just did the same thing on sevenforums.com. The list stretches on and on. Note, dumbass, ubuntuforums.org are for every version of Ubuntu the sevenforums is just for Windows 7. How about a little bit of intellectual honesty, dipshit?

Your entire driver model is a piss poor joke!

I know you are a troll but to inject a little common sense into this, how do you expect hardware to work on an operating system it wasn't designed for? That's like asking why windows 7 won't install on a Sparcstation. The landfills are full of printers and scanners that won't work with Win7. I don't see you crying about that. Generally, if there is a driver for a piece of hardware that has been officially written for Linux it works better there. I had a USB cellular dongle I got from Verizon a couple of years ago that was atrocious in Windows. Took over a minute to connect from cold, would constantly time out and hang necessitating pulling it out and reinserting it. On Linux, it connected in less than 10 seconds and never had to be reinitialized. On hardware that is made for both Linux and Windows, the Linux experience is usually better. My girlfriend has a laptop with integrated wi-fi and when she boots it into Windows, you have to wait a good minute for it to initialize and the little donut to quit spinning in the tray over the network icon for the internet to work. When I boot it into Linux, it's up and ready to go before the desktop even fully loads. All in all, in about half the time it takes Windows. Now, of course, for you trolls, Linux can't win so despite these things because your 2 dollar winmodem doesn't work, Linux is shit. Why don't you just admit that you run a click and drool/part replacer repair shop and Windows is your bread and butter so you have a vested interest in hating anything else. If I made my living as a pathetic virus "ambulance chaser", I'd champion Windows too.

But you stick your head in the sand little man, you pretend it is all a global conspiracy by the evil M$ to keep your "quality" away from the masses when in reality the masses have spoken in a loud single voice and said "DO NOT WANT to your broke ass driver clusterfuck and CLI jerking off.

So, when Linux is built on hardware made for it, marketed well and made available to the masses, it doesn't sell?

When Apple was smartphone king, just a couple of short years ago, it wouldn't have dreamt of this. Now its lost the war it's just resorting to the desperate tactics m$ deploys to start with, seeing as they never had any market share to speak of and never will.

Who's running things over there?

If the US government decided all of a sudden to change from driving on the right hand side to the left hand side of the road, don't you think people would be rightfully pissed about having to buy a new car, or get theirs converted?
(Look! A car analogy that works!!)

Unfortunately, your car analogy does not work. For one, all left hand drive cars can be driven on the left side of the road without modification. Secondly, cable TV penetration was at 58% in 2006, and everyone with cable does not have to be concerned about this.

So before you get all excited, car analogies never work.

http://www.marketingcharts.com/television/snl-kagan-cable-subscription-data-contradicts-fcc-chairman-kevin-martin-2634/snl-kagan-cable-summary-data-2006jpg/