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iPod More Popular Than Beer?
prostoalex writes "Whenever someone says college students, the first thing that comes to mind is drinking beer, right? Wrong, says new research by Student Monitor, which claims than in 2006 73% of students it surveyed said iPods were in, while beer drinking and Facebook.com fought for the second place with 71% of popular votes."
Story is about american students. Summary headline should read:
Apple: iPod more popular than flavourless brown fizzy drinks.
(I'll leave the facebook==beer popularity jokes to others:)
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It's not just college students. No, the iPod has absolutely become a phenomenon that I was thinking was perhaps restricted to college students and those of us Apple geeks that were early adopters (I had an iTunes music server made out of an old Powerbook as soon as they released iTunes). However, my thinking has essentially been completely corrected with all the travel I was doing over the past year giving talks and such. On every trip, I saw white earbuds connected to iPods and just last week on the Washington, D.C. metro subway, I counted twenty people in my car alone coming back from the Pentagon who were using iPods of various types, three people with Powerbooks/MacBook Pros and two people with brand new Macbooks. It was amazing and given the performance of the stock market over the past couple of weeks, made me feel much better about the shares of AAPL that I purchased.
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For one thing, beer is never going to be popular with more than 37 percent of law-abiding college students in the United States, where the legal age for possessing an alcoholic beverage is somewhere in the junior year. With an iPod, on the other hand, any college student in the United States can rip CDs and buy DRM'd tracks from iTMS.
No matter how many songs you listen to, she's still gonna be ugly and talk to much.
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...sandwiches are still more popular than laptops.
"Free as in iPod"?!? I think not.
iPod better than sex; survey of virgins shows.
I didn't realize this was a binary choice!
I just bought an iPod! THE HUMANITY! Beer, I miss thee already!
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Barring underage drinking, it is more likely than not that students over 18 years would vote for beer, while iPod's would appeal to the younger agegroup as well. Infact early teenagers seem to be the target of their marketing campaigns, and people who're more likely to vote iPod over alcoholic beverages.
Given the fact that most students in the country comprise of the 0-18 age-group, and a minority in the 19 and over age group, the results aren't surprising, and infact skewed.
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The margin of error is 2.3% so they are all really tied.
Still whats better than jamming out with your iPod while surfinf Facebook and getting drunk?
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Bere is waaay mor popoolre tnah podis! I heave noo idia wat ur talkn abowt ociffer....seeriuslee, man.
"...beer drinking and Facebook.com fought for the second place with 71% of popular votes."
You might want to check your math, you drunk facebooking iPod dancing freaks!
Im ny day we studied in college, humming along to an 8 track! And that's the way we liked it!
Not everyone likes beer. The percentage is higher with college females. Why didn't they ask 'alcohol' instead of 'beer'?
You can take the one listening to the 6th song on your slow jams playlist, I'll take a women on her 6th beer.
Once again the education system fails us.
I remember when it took my two roommates and me to scrape together $6 to get a pitcher of cheap beer. If there was a $20 between us, we were drunk and proud of ... something...
:-)
These kids nowadays with their $250 iPods... Sheesh!
beer always rises again when drinking excessive quanitys..
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For one thing, beer is never going to be popular with more than 37 percent of law-abiding college students in the United States, where the legal age for possessing an alcoholic beverage is somewhere in the junior year. With an iPod, on the other hand, any college student in the United States can rip CDs and buy DRM'd tracks from iTMS.
I was at one of those schools in a state where the drinking age was 21. What I can tell you is it's easier to get beer than a nice glass of ice water!
People are used to easily availiable beer starting in high school!
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I question the validity of this survey. Wouldn't beer-drinking college students necessarily be underrepresented in this type of poll? It's totally not a statistically representative sample of college students if they asked these questions during daylight hours, and even worse, if they asked them before noon.
Uhhm, Budweiser or Budweiser? Because, you know, the latter comes from Budweis, Czechia, and is indeed quite popular in Europe, though it has nothing to do with the American one (different company, entirely different beers), but both sold under the same name.
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As far as imports go, Ales lose out to Lagers. There are a few, but for English imports stouts seem to have the upperhand. Germany has a majority share of the imported brews I find here in Connecticut. There are lots of European brews imported as well. Belgian trappist brews are quite popular as well. Alas, even in my favorite local beer super-store (Amity Discount Wine and Spirits) Canadian beer is sadly underrepresented. Only the major breweries are available, and while a decent drink, you miss some of the funky unique stuff that seems to flood in from Germany.
I need to go on a drinking vacation to Germany.
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Hey, don't bash nerdy university students. I'm an undergraduate currently studying for a research masters level course on neural networks with a beer in my hand (11:25 am) and no iPod or whatever the hell a facebook is in sight. Mind you, I do live in Australia, which might explain my priorities a little.
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They were probably drunk when they took the poll...
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