What Your Gadgets Reveal About You
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Oct-13-2010
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This article is about the electronic gadgets we use and what they can reveal about what kind of people we are. A Gadgetology study has found similarities between buying behaviors towards certain products in many people. Read more to see how iPhone users differ from BlackBerry users and more.
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Whether you're a Mac or a PC, an iPhone, Android, or a BlackBerry user, the gadgets you use say something about you. Based on Retrevo’s new Gadget Census Report, gadget owners exhibit different behavior and characteristics depending on which gadget “camps” they belong to. Here’s a list of some of the more interesting conclusions we’ve drawn from looking at the gadgets people use in thousands of households across the country and around the world.
Android Owners Don’t Need Land Lines
Is the cell phone service in your home reliable enough for you to give up your land line? Not surprisingly, the Gadget Census found more Android owners than iPhone owners have cut the cord and gone cellular at home. We don’t know what the reason is, but could the fact that Android owners are 35% more likely to not have a land line have something to do with the reliability of AT&T’s coverage?
Mac Owners Buy More Apple Products
It may not come as a big surprise that computer owners who indicated they use the Mac OS as their primary OS, purchase more iPhones and other Apple gear. In fact, households, where the Mac OS is listed as the primary OS, purchase more than 3 times as many iPhones and almost 6 times as many iPads.
Once You Go Mac You Never Go Back
Although Windows still dominates Mac OS by a very large margin, the Gadget Census detected some interesting patterns in the Mac vs. PC duality. In households where PCs are the primary computers, Macs are unlikely to be found. On the other hand, in Mac households, PCs are very commonly found. We’re not sure if this is a result of households that once used PCs and changed to Macs, or the latest generation of computer users prefer Macs but in either case, the trend looks like it favors Apple.
iPhone Owners Think (and Act) Different
iPhone owners are different in many ways from owners of other smartphones, they are typically younger than other smartphone owners (especially BlackBerry owners) and tend to be earlier adopters with activities like buying things with their iPhones and watching TV online. On the other hand, in some ways they are not quite as different as they would like to think of themselves. Turns out, they rent more movies from Blockbuster (23% more likely than Android owners) and are more likely (22% than Android owners) to not even know what kind of TV they have than their Android and BlackBerry counterparts.
Android Owners are More Technical
You would expect that a smartphone running Linux would attract a techier consumer and the Gadget Census bears that out. Android owners own more of the techier type gadgets like netbooks and e-readers than owners of other smartphones. They use fewer GPS devices in the car as well – maybe the advantage of being in the Google camp with their sophisticated map technology could be the reason. On the other hand those Android owners may be so involved with technology that they don’t have time to read books or recycle their old gadgets with 25% more likely to not read books and 20% not caring about recycling
BlackBerry Owners Are Good People Too
As techie as Android owners are and “different” as iPhone owners are, BlackBerry owners come across as more normal and, you could say even, old fashioned. For example, the Gadget Census found that BlackBerry owners were more likely to still use a CRT as their primary TV and get their music from the radio and less likely to buy things with their phones. On the other hand, they are 15% more likely to recycle their gadgets than Android owners.
Conclusion
Although most gadget enthusiasts all have one thing in common and that is a passion for the latest gear and gadgets, there are also big differences between owners of different types and brands of products. Apple is not just a company but a way of life and a commitment to a line of electronics, Android owners with their choice of carriers could make them more confident cell phone users and BlackBerry owners might agree with the motto slow and steady wins the race.
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Article Source :
http://www.articleseen.com/Article_What Your Gadgets Reveal About You_37593.aspx
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Author Resource :
Andrew Eisner, Retrevo's director of community and content and resident hard core gadget enthusiast. Eisner comes to Retrevo from the world of computer journalism. To find more information, see GPS and LCD HDTV.
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Keywords :
android, iphone, mac, apple, blackberry, hdtv, lcd, crt, gps,
Category :
Product Reviews
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Consumer Electronics
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