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I have one & it's mostly b/c it'll do everything except butter my toast in the morning...seriously. The other day I parked my car at a stadium that has over 12,000 parking spots, I used an app on iphone to find my car quickly instead of wandering about for a half an hour.
I don't buy phones often either, my phone I replaced was an ancient Sanyo from 2001 that ONLY would make calls, no camera, no internet, etc. The most advanced feature it had was voicemail lol.
I have one & it's mostly b/c it'll do everything except butter my toast in the morning...seriously. The other day I parked my car at a stadium that has over 12,000 parking spots, I used an app on iphone to find my car quickly instead of wandering about for a half an hour.
I don't buy phones often either, my phone I replaced was an ancient Sanyo from 2001 that ONLY would make calls, no camera, no internet, etc. The most advanced feature it had was voicemail lol.
This is interesting. Let's take the thread in another direction and turn your question around. Others are welcome to join in.
What electronic devices (media or otherwise) would you expect to find in an upper-middle class suburban household that includes two adults, one teenager, and one elementary-schooler? Also, how many of each do you think do you think is typical?
In that house I'd expect two find three cell phones, one big flat screen TV and 1-2 smaller ones, a digital cable or sat box probably with DVR, a blue ray player and probably an older DVD player plugged in somewhere else, at least two computers that are < 3 years old and probably an older laptop that has been passed down to a kid.
That doesn't include all the things that were once nifty electronic devices but are now essential/commonplace like garage door openers, microwave oven, etc.
Generally speaking, people own things like iPhones and then they are also the ones who are complaining that they don't have enough money for food because gas is so high.
Good list, slackjaw. I'd add in at least one handheld gaming system, several iPods or other personal music players, and one gaming console like an XBox or Wii.
We have one personal computer (an HP Touchsmart) with high-speed internet, a laser printer, one iPod Nano, one cell phone (my spouse is a consultant and carries an HTC Incredible for both personal and work purposes), one flatscreen TV w/ a steaming-only Netflix subscription but no cable (a very recent addition to our previously TV-less household, which elicited much controversy from our social circle), and one digital camera.
As an aside, we do have a garage-door opener, but we do not have a microwave oven, which also seems to throw our friends and neighbors for a loop. (Doesn't anybody know how to cook using a range anymore?) Neither do we have two other staples of middle-class living: a cordless phone (we have one wall-mounted princess phone in the kitchen) and an answering machine.
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I actually work at an Apple store as a genius bar tech associate. One REALLY funny observation I make is that many who come in to make appointments to see us are not serious tech types, most are people who see our products as fashion accessories.
I had a funny experience last week when a girl came in & needed help with her new iphone she just got. She got it to replace some HTC phone her parents had bought her. I about died when she said "I was always so embarassed to carry that phone around, those are very out of style and only for poor people."
This is interesting. Let's take the thread in another direction and turn your question around. Others are welcome to join in.
What electronic devices (media or otherwise) would you expect to find in an upper-middle class suburban household that includes two adults, one teenager, and one elementary-schooler? Also, how many of each do you think do you think is typical?
As we don't have kids, nor do few of our friends, I can't comment fully, but this is what we (two adults) have in our house:
- 4 cel phones (we each have a personal Droid cel phone and a work Blackberry)
- 1 landline phone (I used to work out of a home office, my wife still does - handy for long teleconferences)
- 3 laptops (one personal laptop and we each have one supplied by our companies for work)
- Media room with large flatscreen and surroundsound system
- DVD Player / recorder (with a built in VCR deck!)
- Digital Cable Box with DVR
- Wii
- Second, smaller TV and DVD player in the master bedroom
- Stereo system in the living room (proper, old-school component system with a turntable, CD player / recorder and a dual deck cassette player)
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