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Women Buy More Tech Than Men
Computerguy5 writes "According to a Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) study, released at this past Consumer Electronics Show (CES), women accounted for $55 billion of the $96 billion dollar market. 40 percent of women surveyed responded that they were treated better when accompanied by a man. CNN reports on the findings."
Yeah, but those electronics usually involve the settings: Slow, Medium, and Fast! :D
Men earn money, women spend it.
If I didn't have a woman to remind me, I wouldn't even remember to buy food!
Men use duct tape, thus extending the life of certain pieces of equipment that thus don't require replacing...
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I'm sure that there must be SOME link between the headline and the article... but I'm buggered if I can see what it is.
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that tells me that the men are finding the better deals.
In other news woman talk about their feelings more then men and men watch more football then woman.
Oh and the sky is blue. News at 11.
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Dumbass. Then again, her husband bought the Jaguar upgrade. . . for his WinXP laptop. . .
You are not the customer.
Tech salespeople would rather sell to a man than a woman because women don't go all glassy eyed and impressionable around bright, shiny things.
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
One more reason to start looking for a girl friend, and pretty soooooon too...
No, but it does require an exceedingly small penis.
Nearly three-quarters of women surveyed by the industry group complained about being ignored, patronized or offended by sales people when shopping for electronics.
At least the sales staff a Fry's Electronics don't discriminate; they'll ignore you reguardless of your gender :)
Hon, can you go to the shop and pick me up *insert gadget/techno babble here*
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Radio Shack???? Oh, yeah the Sprint Cell Phone store
now I remember.
I actually know quite a few gadget girls. But I've yet to find one who could link up their GP32 with mine.
She probably was wondering what the hell this "Rumbus RAM" was, since the box listed "Rambus RAM" and concluded tahat you didn't have the foggiest clue what you were talking about :)
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
i refuse to believe you.
i walk by radio shack often. and i never see ANYBODY in there.
turn up the jukebox and tell me a lie
Statistics show that 94.52% of all surveys that do not give details on sample size and sampling methods are bogus. Trust me.
A man wouldn't refrain.
There's your problem.
(Of course, if you want to be extra manly, pop 'em one in the jaw for insulting a lady. It is, after all, the chivalrous course of action in when faced with such discourtesy.)
Microsoft Windows is, fittingly, the official Desktop OS of Olig
"Management Guru" Tom Peters said this and is right. Yet,... product design continues to be male-driven. Many electronic products are designed like F250 trucks instead of light SUVs. This makes them female-hostile (and often hostile for people with smaller hands etc).
There are exceptions to this. Products that are sleek, sexy, and work great. Apple iPod and iBook, for example.
But your are right about most things. The PS2 looks like something out of a Terminator movie, as do most l33t g4m3r computer cases. Even the ubiquitous TI-83 calculator has an industrial look to it.
I think male design teams are afraid to use a woman's perspective in their designs, for fear of their product looking like a hello kitty dildo or something.
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
No, I'm New Here
Stop with the 'go make me a sammich, beyotch!' jokes. They're an insult to men and women alike.
Yup. Everyone knows it's pronounced, "byatch!"
Pah! That has little to do with women vs. men. Most of the advice I give to anyone is ignored...even when I'm asked for opinions first.
The conversion now goes something like this;
Me: "What are you planning on doing?"
Them: "No, seriously, should I get a Widget?"
Me: "Well, if you are asking you're probably planning on getting one. If you're planning on getting one, you have probably already picked one out."
Them: "There's this one..."
Me: "Buy it."
Them: "I'm asking for your opinion."
Me: "Do you really want my opinion?"
Them: "Yes."
Me: "No, you want someone to tell you to buy something you've already chosen. Since you won't listen to me -- nobody does -- why not just buy what you wanted to in the first place?"
Them: "Well, I wouldn't ask if I didn't want your opinion. I don't know a thing about Widgets, and you do!"
(Long Q & A on what they are looking for and suggestions on what are the better choices.)
Me: "OK, from what you said and what I know about the Wankel Widget Mark III you're looking at...I suggest you wait 6 months and ask me again. No matter what, though, that Wankel Widget is a waste of time and money. The Bolox Widget ZX is 1/4 the price and does about the same thing...though even that's a waste of money right now. Sorry."
Them: "B-but...the Wankel Widget is so cool looking. It does everything."
Me: "You asked my opinion, and from what you've said, it's not only useless but a waste of your time and money. Wait 6 months and things might improve."
Them: "You know...I think I am going to get the Widget."
Me: "See, I told you nobody listens to me. Go buy it."
Them: "Hmmmmm...." (They go buy it and tell me in a few months that it was an 'OK' or 'poor' choice.)
A firewall can not protect you from yourself. Turn off what you do not need. Do not use the firewall to do your work.
I think of my own reasoning for buying videogames. I bought the console so I could play the games. Now I have to buy many games to justify spending the money on the console. In some cases, I've bought the games before I had the console. I also have to buy DVDs to justify spending money on multimedia equipment.
That probably gets women as mystified as I was when a female friend said that I could/should buy a pair of shoes if I bought a few less DVDs. Me: But I've got shoes. I'm wearing them.
"But I trust in the people's capacity for reflection, rage and rebellion." -Oscar Olivera
CEA study? I'm sure this analysis was unbiased and only considered opinions from appropriate participants. Plus, kdkgjdjig
Whoops, sorry, I got an orgasm while washing my hair.
The previous posters will not have any problem keeping a woman entertained.... although should they continously buy gifts that meet the afore mentioned speed settings... they may not keep them long.
What? I have to really struggle to think of someone I know who doesn't own a cell phone, male or female. The reason they spend more money in that category is due the fact women just don't know when to shut the hell up. Trust me, it's the reason men are labeled as poor listeners, after thousands of years of evolution we developed this ability to 'tune-out and nod our heads' just to keep our sanity. That and the fact we could no longer just knock them out with our clubs and drag them back to the cave any longer. :-(
Maybe females should learn about the awesome powers of pricewatch.com and newegg.com, instead of buying those expensive Apple computers.
It's possible to sell someone AOL? I thought it was something you just noticed you had one day like Herpes.
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who in here has a significant other?
no, no, I know that _some_ slashdotters have mates.
*snicker
"Yeah, I hate complicated stuff. Finishing up my master's in EE damn near killed me, and you wouldn't believe how complicated THAT got. Of course, now I can get a real job that doesn't involve wearing a nametag."
He put his boots up on the table and made a face. "The sig," he smirked. "You can waste your life in search of the sig."
A man will spend $2 on a $1 item because he needs it.
A woman will spend $1 on a $2 item she doesn't need because it's on sale.
Not only that, but now she has an unexpected extra $1 that she can use that for something else!
Everytime I go into a Radio Shack there's always a woman in there. Unfortunately it's because I went in there.