Mac Users do more Ping!
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
Posted on 04/17/2009 7:57:25 PM PDT by Swordmaker
New info from the MetaFacts research group shows that there are differences between the typical Mac user and the typical Windows users. I’m not saying we’re better, just different (in a, ahem, good way). According to MetaFacts:
Sixty-three percent of Mac users spend more time using their computer than watching TV, compared with 57 percent of non-Mac households. (The national trend away from TVs passed the half-way mark between 2007 and 2008.)
Fun is only slightly stronger among the Apple crowd. Sixty percent of Apple households say they keep finding more ways to use the Internet for fun, compared with 58 percent of the non-Apple group.
Mac home users are more active than Windows home users. They use their computers for a wider range of activities.
Also, Macs are used differently than Windows systems. Apple computers are more often used for graphics and imaging, personal, and communication activities, with more than 25 percent more activities in each category. Apple users simply find a wider range of uses for their computers than Windows users.
This information is released from the Apple Profile Report, a Technology User Profile solution from MetaFacts. It is based on recent surve-based research, reporting directly from a representative sample of actual users. The Apple Profile Report is available for immediate purchase through the online store at the MetaFacts web site.
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
Just meet this Windows user in a game of WarCraft III and we’ll see who’s better. ;-)
Oh brother.
I had fun reading these statistics. Does that count?
I use Macs. I like Macs. They are fine machines. But why are Mac devotees so insecure that they are constantly seeking affirmation of their superiority? It’s a machine people; a tool. It doesn’t define you. Get over yourselves.
I’m not cool enough to be a Mac person.
“Mac home users are more active than Windows home users. They use their computers for a wider range of activities.”
Hope and change. How’s that working?
People like to talk computers at FR and Mac threads are part of it
I once thought that about myself.
I bought an iMac last September and now I’m cool.
Heck, after all these months I still hate Gore and I haven’t turned gay, so I think it’s going to work out. ;>)
Once you go iMac, you’ll never go back.
Maybe the converse of this is that Windows users have lives? Probably not exactly a valid conclusion, but no less valid than any other possible conclusion of this “so what” study.
No, Macs get this:
Sad, all that time Mac users spend having fun on the Internet that they could spend having fun with other people in bed (or the car, the shower, the couch, whatever) like Windows users.
A Mac is expensive and rare, a PC is cheap and everywhere, for instance I imagine many more TV watching children have PCs than own Macs.
Also I’m sure many more grandparents are using PCs to check their emails rather than Macs.
This is like a study that shows that people that use a full dinner setting including a salad fork and soup spoon at every meal are healthier and less likely to be overweight than people that don’t.
macs... cute little vcrs.
as a professional software developer, i can tell you that the mac platform is tied with linux in porting priority (lower for non-server/backend stuff). why? simple. market size.
i know a couple of mac-jihadists that spaz whenever you mention ‘windows’ (kind of like saying ‘foxnews’ or ‘o’reilly’ to a liberal)... funny thing... these professionals have never made a dime writing software for the mac.
sure, some people do, somewhere... but i would equate making money writing software for the mac about the same as making money playing any sport. fun to play with, but only 0.0001% actually get paid to play.
Porno AND email!
I'd think so... I had fun, too. I'm also having fun responding to you. So that's twice the fun...
54% of those surveyed would say yes.
I'm a Mac user. If I want to see a proper and authentic Blue Screen of Death, all I have to do is fire up Windows XP in a Parallels virtual machine and run this handy screen saver. If I get tired of watching, I can just click over to one of my other desktops (via an extra button on my Logitech mouse) and get to work.
On the other hand...
People Who Switch To Macs Like To Dance, And Other Strange Hunches
by Erick Schonfeld on April 17, 2009
it’s been only three weeks since the launch of Q&A site Hunch, but already it’s amassed answers to 4.3 million questions. By taking visitors through a series of questions to get to know them better, Hunch can begin to make guesses about the right kinds of answers for each individual by making correlations across between people who answer similarly across different topics. It’s sort of like collaborative filtering for information.
Co-founder Caterina Fake of Flickr fame shares some of the correlations Hunch has been able to find so far. Some of her findings:
* People who believe that alien abductions are real are more likely to blame Nancy Pelosi for the financial crisis.
* One of the best predictors of whether people agree they should switch to a Mac: whether they like to dance. Are PC users less fun? The data has spoken.
* Fake ID users are more likely to be happy at startups.
Also, people who like sports video games are more likely to have had a broken leg at one point (which would explain why they like to sit on the couch and play football instead of go out and, you know, actually play football).
And on the subject of Facebook versus Twitter, the Hunch data suggests that “Facebook people” are more social than Twitterers in actual social situations like a party. Facebook people mingle with more people, including strangers, whereas Twitterers stick to people they know. Other differences? Facebook people spend more on shampoo and like to drink more. Whereas “Twitterers report that they have oily skin.” In other words, Twitter is for geeks. I knew it! Don’t tell Oprah
Hunch’s data set will become available to researchers next week through a special “researchers API.” Can’t wait to find out what other correlations come out of it.
On the third hand, I hate to dance (could be because I have a very bad back...)
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