Posted on 04/22/2015 12:46:47 PM PDT by JOAT
Just over six percent of Americans plan to buy an Apple Watch this year, according to an online poll of 1,829 US adults conducted by Reuters/Ipsos. If accurate, that means Apple could sell as many as 15 million Watches this year, or more than double the total number of smartwatches sold by all manufacturers in 2014.
Who are these Watch watchers? Reuter’s interactive polling tool offers an in-depth and occasionally surprising look at the demographics.
According to this poll, Apple Watch fans are democratic leaning and college educated, largely male, but not necessarily Caucasian. They own their own homes and make a decent income. They’re more likely to be east coast elitists than left coast liberals, but they still attend church. And many of them don’t already own an iPhone.
In fact, if you crave an Apple Watch….
You’re probably a man
Men who wanted the Watch outnumbered women by a factor of nearly three to one. Despite Apple’s emphasis on fashionable design, it appears the Watch is still mostly a guy thing.
You’re young
Just over 11 percent of wannabe Watch owners are under the age of 39; fewer than 2 percent are over 50. The biggest chunk of Watch fans are between the ages of 30 and 39; some 13 percent plan to enter middle age with an Apple Watch on their wrists.
You’re well off
Nearly 9 percent of people who make $75K or more yearn for an Apple Watch, or twice as many as less affluent Americans. Oddly, people who earn between $75K and $100K are slightly more likely to buy one than those with incomes north of $100K. Perhaps those people already sport a gaudy overpriced timepiece on their wrists.
You’re educated
Four out of ten people surveyed had finished college or graduate school, and a solid 10 percent of them said yes to the Watch. Less than 5 percent of those who never got past high school will be shopping for one.
You probably voted for Obama
It appears our nation is as divided about its gadgets as it is about health care, immigration, and gay rights. One out of 10 survey respondents who voted for Obama in 2012 plan to pull the lever for an Apple Watch; fewer than one out of 20 Romney supporters are equally inspired.
But you’re probably not Caucasian
Only 4 percent of white respondents said they plan to buy an Apple Watch, versus nearly 11 percent of minorities.
You’re more likely to live in the northeast
Surprisingly, fewer than 3 percent of residents in the Far West say they intend to get a Watch. That’s about a third the number of people living in the Mid-Atlantic and New England, where roughly 9 percent say they’ll buy.
You’ve never been married
Single people who’ve never married are 50 percent more likely than married couples to buy an Apple Watch, and about three times more enthusiastic about it than those who are divorced or separated. Apparently you can buy a Watch or pay alimony, but you can’t do both.
You’re religious
More than 75 percent of people surveyed identified themselves as followers of a major world religion, and 7 percent of them plan to reap their Apple rewards on earth, not in heaven. Less than 4 percent of nonbelievers have any interest.
You may not already own a iPhone
Only one out of six iPhone owners in the survey say they’ll get the watch; one out of 12 non-iPhone owners said they’d consider switching smartphone allegiances to get one.
The reason? Social status. Some 42 percent agreed there is a “cool factor” associated with owning the watch. Of course, without an iPhone, the Apple Watch is an expensive and largely useless trinket. But to some, coolness is reason enough.
The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.6 percent.
the queen of the sycophants chimes in
look at my contribution history, i stopped when FR became a gay fest love fest for Apple because of Swordmaker
I won’t contribute to a gay supporting entity
yeah, you can take that to your 20,000 member ping (19,992 are swordmaker nominames), whatever
I won’t give money, as I have stated several years ago to a gay supporting web site, which FR clearly is, because of swordmaker
I won’t support the LA Times or the NY Times for the same reason. Want my reason? Stop promoting gaypple.
The article is a variation of those we often see.
It boils downt to Republicans are Luddites and stupid.
Oops, Other religion disappeared on me. Anyway that included Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, and Mormon. . . and everything else: 5.7%
If you post and benefit from this site a couple of bucks a month is the decent thing to do.
I’m too busy working to look at anybody’s contribution history, but in the grand scheme “Apple” shouldn’t affect support for FR.
It does when you post that and claim it is untrue. . . when it is true.
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Free Republic has really gone DOWNHILL when a significant number of other posters try to put down very conservative Freepers like you, who are independent and have minds of their own!
I am glad you are able to freely pick a product like this, made in our capitalistic and free enterprise system, and enjoy the fruits of your labor in doing so!
Good choice!!
It’s cool, I’ll just stop posting if JR wants. Otherwise get off my lawn.
You said ...
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M wife’s cousin is a very devout Catholic ,very conservative intact family with husband and two teenage sons, and she works at the Apple store. Has for years.
Why? In part she is very intelligent. Traded the idea of becoming a doctor, for becoming a mother.
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From my direct experience at many different Apple Stores in several cities and several states, the kind of floor people they have there are the kind of people that all retailers should have on the floor of their stores. They are EXCELLENT in their jobs and they know exactly how to listen carefully to what you say as a customer and respond very appropriately and never being pushy or arrogant!
Other retailers need to pay careful attention to how Apple does it!
Did you ever think, that if you are holding abated breaths... that maybe you are on the wrong website?
I mean, I am sure you are posting the same sh*t on DU, or where ever you can, but this IS a conservative website and you and I have been over this before.
Gaypple promotion does not fit here, look at Jim Rob’s last few posts on Apples. It’s a gay ass company, which is boycotting an entire state. F You, F Apple. You can both bl*w me, but I’m sure you would.
Jobs died of aids from getting it in the arse, he loved it.
You like it in the arse too, as you keep posting here and spreading your cheeks to get it.
You like it deep and painful.
F*in queer ass gaypple lover
your favorite company boycotted an entire state because they believe in religious freedom, yet you are on here day after day, spouting that they are the best thing to Jesus Christ.
I hope you die of aids like Steve J did.
You and all your faggotry.
Go away. You don’t belong here.
Go suck a d*ck somewhere else with your log cabin republicans.
On Free Republic, the so-called “FUD Packers” (as you call them) are those APPLE-HATER TROLLS that do their droppings here ... LOL ...
Your post should be saved ... to be used for an example of what a mental disease looks like after a person has been incapacitated by the disease! ... :-) ...
and before you start with the “homphobe” shit, yeah, I have no use for homos
none
zero
nada
you homo’s are “Ameriphobes”
you hate america
you hate people like me
if you want to go s*ck dick fine, but why do you have to advertise it every 3 minutes?
I don’t go around telling everyone “HEY I LIKE WOMEN!!!!!!” I LIKE WOMEN!!!!!! SEEE MEEEE???? I LIKE WOMENNNN!!!!!”
WTF? Keep your shit to yourself.
Faggot.
If by homophobe you mean I want to punch your lights in, well, then yes, I guess I qualify.
Faggot.
Go put a turtle neck on, and go to the “genius bar” so you can shuck some clams.
God, could you get any more faggoty day after day?
I mean, it would be like me coming on here endorsing leather goods for gay dudes. Explaining “they are for everyone!”
No, they are not..
Gaypple is for gays and people my dads age which would be in the 90’s.
Buying a gaypple is either a) making a statement or b) I’m too old for a real computer.
if it’s a, then the statement is: I like sausage, I am against global warming/cooling, i support gay marriage, republicans are evil, if its b) well, then I can understand that, because a Gaypple is to computing what AOL is to computing. It is for idiots.
So, either you are a) or b). I assume you an infiltrator, so a. You have been here forever pushing gaypple, day after day after day.
Be it known, and you can look at my contribution hiistory (and I have been here a very LONG time), that there were months were I gave 400-600 dollars, these donations stopped IMMEDIATELY once you were spotted on my radar.
And they will not be re-introduced until you are gone and banned.
If Jim R luvs ya, then so be it.
No $$$$ from me.
Ain’t gonna happen till you are well gone.
F’in homo lovin ass
go suck a sausage
I’d kick your teeth in if I was a younger man and you were in my face
hell, I’m an old man, and I”d still do it, if you were in my face
take your gayplle and go blow aids ridden jobs
Just to let OUTSIDE READERS know ... this poster isn’t really a Freeper, as he clearly says he doesn’t support Free Republic, and so ... most likely he is a “plant” from outside Free Republic who is here to try and make Free Republic look bad to third-party readers!
Free Republic posters know that this is a family site and would never say things like this poster does about such sexual topics. That’s a dead-giveaway that he is not a Freeper, besides the fact that he says he’s not!
Star Traveler .... aka Swordmaker.... known for a few years
one in the same
joined by dicks in the mouth
really you swordswallower? look at my poster history and years here, and look at my contribution history.
swordmaker, get on your other account and man up
you are such a tool
go suck a jobs
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