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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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"Free as in iPod"?!? I think not.
iPod better than sex; survey of virgins shows.
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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For one thing, beer is never going to be popular with more than 37 percent of law-abiding college students in the United States[...]
Pfft. Those two guys are a little creepy anyway.
law-abiding college students
Individually, I understand every word in that snippet.
But together.... just not parsing.
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Bere is waaay mor popoolre tnah podis! I heave noo idia wat ur talkn abowt ociffer....seeriuslee, man.
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.
beer always rises again when drinking excessive quanitys..
'...if only "Jumping to a Conclusion" was an event in the Olympics.'
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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