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How High-Tech Gadget Trends Differ By US Region
Ant writes in with news of a study revealing differences in gadget preferences by US region. The survey is not rigorous, based as it was on 7,500 online questionnaires submitted to Retrevo, a website for tech shoppers. The company plans to run the survey annually. "...in the smartphone category, the state of Maryland came out on top with 48 percent more households owning at least one such handset than elsewhere in the country. ... In iPad use, the state of New York took top honors. According to the survey, 52 percent more households have at least one iPad in the Empire State. ... Massachusetts beat out the rest of the nation in e-reader adoption..."
New Yorker: Did you get an iPad yet?
Louisianan:Is that the new model of breadbox I saw at WalMart the other day?
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52 percent MORE. Not 52 percent of households.
Re-read that, it was 52% more, not 52% of total households.
Trolling is a art,
And Alabama once again ranked #1 in "States Most Likely To Ban New Technology As Work of a Witch."
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
The San Francisco Bay Area was also duly noted by Retrevo for being the greenest region with the most energy-efficient consumer electronics.
Which explains why my lifestyle reverted to 1999 post-tech bubble standards as soon as I moved from Colorado to here. Of course, it's easy to recycle when you get a 70 gallon recycling bin and a 20 gallon trash bin from WM. Suddenly a lot more trash looks recyclable....
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Obvious survey is obvious, film at 11. If you earn more than people in other states, you will spend more on gadgets than other states.
Just to point out a correction to the article, in Detroit Michigan that's "Point and Shoot Gun" not "Point and Shoot Camera"
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There's probably not that level of penetration for just about any single consumer product.
Condoms :P
(Though that might be being optimistic)
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I'm loving the non-FUD articles. Did kdawson get laid?
DOH!
A fun graphical view of this is to read the discussion thread of the daily Woot! item, you'll see a gradient-shaded US map with the 50 states indicating the purchase rate. Today's item, a pair of pedometers isn't particularly high tech, so not a great example. But they are selling well in Utah, poorly in Alabama, Alaska and North Dakota. I've never checked to see if this is scaled by population. Almost everything on Woot! sells poorly in West Virginia.
I am not a crackpot.
<emily litella> .... Nevermind.
Oh, well that's different then.
<\emily litella>
a bit small in order to draw these sorts of conclusions? In either case; I completely understand the "Green" tech thriving in California.
"In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change" --Thich Nhat Hanh
I imagine the customer order and shipping records could have provided similar data.
Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool.
This explains why the state is broke and public education has completely failed. The state is totally full of wackos.
Athiesm is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.
52 percent MORE. Not 52 percent of households.
To be fair, TFS doesn't say MORE than what. I assumed national average, but it could very well be 48% of Marylanders.
Remember when editors were used to improve grammar?
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"the state of Maryland came out on top with 48 percent more households owning at least one such handset than elsewhere in the country."
What does this mean? I can think of three different interpretations of this which would all result in vastly different distributions throughout the country.
My best guess, based on realistic assumptions, is that it means that the *rate* of ownership in Maryland is 1.48x the rate of the entire country. If so, they worded the article poorly. Taken literally, they make it sound like Maryland has 1.48x as many smart-phone owning households as the rest of the 49 states combined.
It does bring up an interesting question, Which products are owned by roughly fifty percent of the population of the United States(or other countries)?
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Jesus! Now there is an ancient and crusty tag. I don't feel quite so old now.
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In iPad use, the state of New York took top honors.
Honors? Please.
Remember when editors were used to improve grammar?
Since when have slashdot editors ever done such a thing?
That's no surprise, we all know NY is full of a holes! hehehe :P
The results, which were based on 7,500 online questionnaires submitted to the consumer electronics review company Retrevo, support commonsense assumptions in some cases about where certain devices might be hot.
The geek is a sucker for the online poll.
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I tried the search to find something appropriate to link to to post a snarky comment, like: 'Try Oklahoma!', but this applies to any USA
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Er, what? They're basing their conclusions for individual states on an online poll with a meager 7500 participants? That's around 150 participants per state, I highly doubt you can get any meaningful statistic out of those numbers.
new york have more hopeful artists and execs running around then anywhere else in USA?
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It certainly would have been handy to have had a link to something that looked like results. Graphs, data points, or something would have worked...
Why on earth would you run a story that is essentially advertising, for those assholes "Retrevo" that come up as spam any time you do a key word search for some arbitrary product and "review"? They never have any reviews, just spam.
Might as well run a story published by Nigerian scammers or folks selling Viagra.