Posted on 09/23/2012 5:48:51 PM PDT by spodefly
After all the hoopla, the Apple’s iPhone debut on Friday more than lived up to expectations, with analysts estimating as many as 10 million sales by tomorrow and more than 130 million by the end of the year.. But there is a surprising quirk in the numbers. More than half of American mobile subscribers — 55.5 percent — are now owners of smartphones of all types, but for white people, the numbers make up just 45 percent, the lowest of any ethnic group, new findings from Nielsen show. Sixty-six percent of Asians, 56 percent of Hispanics and 55 percent of African-Americans use smartphones to check e-mail, play games and surf the Web.
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I have a smart phone but I don’t pay for it my company does so how do the account for all the workers who are provided by the. Imps ids - seems this is a survey of the 47% and some self emPloyed and not a survey of everyone with a smart phone
I resisted a long time, but admit I love my iPhone. On my long daily walks, I listen to Rush, Levin, KSFO Morning Show, Cato Institute, et al; talk to relatives; map my walks and discover new trails; store my exercise log to Map My Run in the cloud; occasionally answer some work emails; check weather; take photos of plants I see that I like and want to put in my yard; and shoot pics of pretty scenery that I send to my kids when I’m walking. Today I came through our downtown and took some quick shots of the 200 Corvettes on display (magnificent cars) and sent them via SMS to my son at college. It is amazing to do all this on one small device.
When I’m driving, I now longer get the paper maps out of the glove box — I simply set the directions on the iPhone and it shows me the way, turn by turn.
Lastly, it provides great reading material in the can - FR, American Thinker, Drudge, Hot Air, et al. Don’t want to waste a minute of the day (except on FR!).
Good guess.
Gummint must be giving them free phones and paying the bill. You know, that tax we are paying so welfare people can get online for free.
I love my smartphone.Get all my email accounts,pics of the grandkids.Saw my last grandson after he was 5 minutes old on my smartphone.Bought an Ipod for my husband for Christmas.He loves talking into it and getting the answers.Bought a used Ipad on Amazon and we like it too.Best is the weather channel and watch the storms come in.Really neat.
Well, what a load of individuals.
Unfortunately, I think I'll never have any trouble making the case (what's having a better memory worth?).
We have a winner.
Its Android for me but the feeling are mutual. Rush, music, alarm clock,interactive calendar, radio, MP3 player, GPS, better camera than any camera I have ever owned and only $40 a month for unlimited everything. It was my Christmas and birthday present and so worth it.
I’m not quite as old as you but I have no intention of going back either. I did away with my home phone and just use the cellular.We don’t have any broadband here so my smartphone is a hotspot and my Internet connection. Beats dialup dramatically. So far knock on wood, I’m not getting all the robo calls that you get on a landline. I think a smartphone is a great invention.
You have obviously never owned a real camera, plus don't trust your GPS in the rural mountainous West or you may end up on a closed, snow covered, dirt road in the Winter and be stuck for weeks if not months. Happens all the time around here. I guess you could at least play games on your phone while waiting for help.
You are absolutely right. Never thought of it and don’t care now either. I charge it if I am going somewhere, stick it in my purse, and that’s about it. Like I said, I don’t even know the number.
What I want to know is where these people are getting the money to afford an expensive TOY such as this. Beyond not wanting to spend that kind of money for it, I’m also very uninterested in it. Count me in with the non-participating whites please.
I’m on the internet all day. The last thing I want is to have it tethered to me when I leave work or go outside the house.
It never ceases to amaze me how many semi-literate minorities I know who can use these gadgets for different things but lack basic English, math, or even filing skills.
The “digital divide” is not why these people struggle economically; it is misplaced priorities and social promotion in schools.
“What I want to know is where these people are getting the money to afford an expensive TOY such as this.”
Good question. I remember when I was younger acquaintances using the internet/PCs for dating sites, without ever learning how to use a spreadsheet, database, word processing program, etc. - they could use a PC to hook up, but not to earn a living. I see the same thing today with many minorities I work with (in low-skill, low-paying jobs).
Sometimes I just want to pull the plug on all this effin crap. I used to live without it! I traveled the world over and over with no cell phone. I think I need to get my sanity back and tell T-Mobile to take their $400 bill (due to a family emergency after years of underuse) and stuff it.
But diamonds are a girls best friend... :-)
I’m white, 64 and love my smartphone. It even an iPhone. :-)
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