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Post by CdnPhoto on Oct 14, 2023 5:56:00 GMT -8
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Dave
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Post by Dave on Oct 15, 2023 1:19:46 GMT -8
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Post by Dave on Oct 15, 2023 1:31:19 GMT -8
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Post by Dave on Oct 15, 2023 1:56:20 GMT -8
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Post by hledgard on Oct 15, 2023 5:27:03 GMT -8
It all seems like pretty heavy stuff. Like an attack on free speech. Heavy control. Not fun.
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Post by chinacat on Oct 15, 2023 12:31:27 GMT -8
I am breaking my intention to abstain from posting to AFB for a while to report an observation from our attendance last night at one of the concerts from this season’s opening weekend of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Early on in the evening, before the start of the show, I noticed that every one of the phones being looked at by the folks in the row in front of us was an iPhone. At the intermission, the same was true of folks waiting in line for the bathrooms.
Now, the demographics of a typical BSO audience are probably more uniform than that of the crowd at, say, one of the many Grateful Dead shows I attended, but once I started noticing, I never saw a single phone in use that was not an iPhone.
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Post by mark on Oct 15, 2023 13:30:48 GMT -8
I am breaking my intention to abstain from posting to AFB for a while to report an observation from our attendance last night at one of the concerts from this season’s opening weekend of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Early on in the evening, before the start of the show, I noticed that every one of the phones being looked at by the folks in the row in front of us was an iPhone. At the intermission, the same was true of folks waiting in line for the bathrooms. Now, the demographics of a typical BSO audience are probably more uniform than that of the crowd at, say, one of the many Grateful Dead shows I attended, but once I started noticing, I never saw a single phone in use that was not an iPhone. iPhones are VERY popular in the USA, especially in the higher income brackets (such as symphony attendees). If you were anywhere in Europe or Asia or South America or Africa, you would see far more Android phones than iPhones. Even at the symphony.
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Post by chinacat on Oct 15, 2023 14:15:47 GMT -8
Well, we’ve been subscribers for ten years, and it’s the first time I’ve seen it.
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Post by mark on Oct 15, 2023 17:18:15 GMT -8
Well, we’ve been subscribers for ten years, and it’s the first time I’ve seen it. Not only are iPhones very popular in the USA, they seem to be becoming more popular with time. Among my kids (5 of them, teens and early 20s) crowds, nearly every single one of their friends and acquaintances use iPhones. Offhand, I can only think of one with an Android. I have a niece and a nephew that prefer Android, but everyone else in my extended family uses iPhones, including my 80+ year old parents and in-laws.
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Post by Lstream on Oct 15, 2023 17:38:49 GMT -8
Well, we’ve been subscribers for ten years, and it’s the first time I’ve seen it. Not only are iPhones very popular in the USA, they seem to be becoming more popular with time. Among my kids (5 of them, teens and early 20s) crowds, nearly every single one of their friends and acquaintances use iPhones. Offhand, I can only think of one with an Android. I have a niece and a nephew that prefer Android, but everyone else in my extended family uses iPhones, including my 80+ year old parents and in-laws. I have read about this. I wonder what explains Apple’s dominance with this age group?
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Post by macster on Oct 17, 2023 6:19:25 GMT -8
Not only are iPhones very popular in the USA, they seem to be becoming more popular with time. Among my kids (5 of them, teens and early 20s) crowds, nearly every single one of their friends and acquaintances use iPhones. Offhand, I can only think of one with an Android. I have a niece and a nephew that prefer Android, but everyone else in my extended family uses iPhones, including my 80+ year old parents and in-laws. I have read about this. I wonder what explains Apple’s dominance with this age group? Start with the Android connotation as being the cheap software, the cheap hardware (as in many original equipment manufacturers) and used by the lower income and nerdy crowd.
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