“A variety of researchers have taken a crack at defining the characteristics and behavior of the Apple demographic,” Dana Mattioli reports for The Wall Street Journal. “The average household income for adult owners of Mac computers is $98,560, compared with $74,452 for a PC owner, according to technology market data firm Forrester. A survey of 24,000 people over the age of 18 in the U.S. from October to December found Mac owners tend to be younger, too, according to consumer data provider BIGinsight.com. Over 41% of Mac owners were 34 years [of age] or younger, compared with 32% for wireless laptop users and 23% for desktop owners, the study found. Owners of other Apple devices had similar traits, with higher incomes than users of BlackBerrys or smartphones running on Google’s Android software, according to BIGinsight.”
“There’s evidence this higher income level translates into higher spending. Nearly half of retailers in a recent study by Forrester Research and Shop.org said users of tablets – who by a large majority are iPad owners – tend to place bigger online orders on average than users of laptops or desktops. Shoppers on Apple devices like iPhones also outspend shoppers using Android or Blackberry devices, according to IBM, which tracks data from retailers,” Mattioli reports. “And while there are twice as many mobile gamers on Android devices in the U.S. as there are on iPhone and iPads, the amount spent by Apple gamers is five times higher than Android gamers, according to international gaming market research firm Newzoo.”
Mattioli reports, “In light of this, retailers have scrambled to roll out mobile apps geared toward iPhone and iPad users, often before rolling out their Android versions. And some are retooling their regular websites to make them work better with Apple devices, removing Flash video, which Apple’s mobile devices don’t support, and spacing out links for easier targeting with fingers.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
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PC and Android users are cheap bastards by and large. Developers are figuring this out. Mac users are young, but also young at heart for us older users. We know quality when we see it.
Right! Quality since 1978 for me, except during the revolving-door CEO days in the 1990s when I bought a clone.
I still remember some quote from those early days when Mike Markkula asked one of his VC friends to listen to Jobs’ pitch, and the friend supposed asked Mike something on the order of “Why did you send me these two scruffy rejects from the human race?” (Steve and Steve weren’t exactly models of tonsorial standards of the day.)
Not sure I follow your logic? Not sure why you call out folks who choose to purchase something other than Apple cheap Bastards? Come on Man!
I wear a 10k Tag watch by choice hence someone who wears a Timex might not be cheap but maybe they too are making a choice.
You still wear a watch? You must be an older person who needs to show the old standards of wealth except for your choice of cheap Dell junk.
To be fair, he did qualify that statement with the phrase “by and large”. So there are exceptions to that qualification. 😉
And to Robert: I wear a watch also (Rolex), but mostly for sentimental reasons – it belonged to my father, who passed in 2006.
And we’re polite. I just caught myself saying “please” to Siri.
Except when MSN posts some polarizing political piece. Then we get downright nasty despite the fact that we’re all on the same team! 🙂 Friendly fire indeed!
Cheap Bastards is actually the technical name for Android and PC users.
I was in a band called “Cheap Bastards”!
iTunes Store Alone (1 account)
471 Movies
1512 episodes of TV of 84 Series
5449 songs
46 Books
202 iOS apps
Mac App Store
50 Paid Apps
Old Fashioned DVD Software:
Aperture
Adobe Photoshop
Bento
Devonthink Pro Office
Microsoft Office 2011
Final Cut Studio
Logic Pro 9
Dragon Dictate
VMWare Fusion
PDF Pen Pro
Data Rescue 3
Drive Genius 3
Tech Tool Pro
VirusBarrier X6/Protector Suite
Grammatica
UltralIngua Dictionary with German & Spanish modules
Fluenz German 1-5
Fluenz Spanish 1-5
ElGato Eye TV
Amazon Kindle App for Mac and iOS
133 Books
Zinio app for Mac and iOS
hundreds of issues of over a dozen publications over 5+ years.
Mac Pro with LED Cinema Display
AL MacBook (not pro) 13″
Mac mini
Apple TV 160GB
iPad 3
iPhone 4 (purchased unlocked)
M-Audio Keystation 61es
Focal XS Monitors
Bowers & Wilkins Headphones
UPEK/Authentec Fingerprint scanner
Eye TV 500 & HD
Moshi Cardette Ultra
Canon LIDE 700 Scanner
Canon MP560 Printer/Scanner
Wacom Graphire Tablet w Mouse & Stylus
Not everything, but gives an idea.
This surprised me about your otherwise impressive and comprehensive list:
Microsoft Office 2011
There are times it is needed- not many- but they do exist. Besides, it was a Black Friday Amazon special.
I’m 12 and I have my own Mac
ive read about the latest findings, orbitz et al in the last few days. they’re talking about me. they’re talking about thousands, hundreds of thousands—millions of people like me, like you who spend to get the best. we’re not alone, not by a long shot. we just want something real, something better.
I don’t care if you’re black or white, rich or poor, left or right… we just know that there’s something BETTER. we’re willing to pay a LITTLE more for a LOT more. it doesn’t stop with our choice of Apple over the rest, it’s with everything. we’re tired of crap and we see it a mile away. Apple users are not elite or nessearily moneyed. we’re just tired of shit. tired of being swindled. we put our money where its best spent—we demand quality over quantity.