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> I don’t care. I’ll pay for convenience. This phone was a thousand dollars! Did you mean for "Average Consumer" just to be your name? Because an average consu
by boomlinde 7y ago
> I don’t care. I’ll pay for convenience. This phone was a thousand dollars!
Did you mean for "Average Consumer" just to be your name? Because an average consumer certainly did not pay $1000 for their phone. Already here you represent an outlier.
> What about that horrible wire? It gets tangled in my pocket and I rip my headphones out when I run.
About 20% of Americans engage in activities like running or jogging. Again, you're an outlier.
> I only have one device.
https://www.cisco.com/c/m/en_us/solutions/service-provider/vni-forecast-highlights.html https://www.cisco.com/c/m/en_us/solutions/service-provider/v...
I can't say for sure that you're an outlier hear because these figures represent a mean and not a median. I'm taking "the average consumer" to mean "the median consumer" because "the mean consumer" doesn't exist.
> I charge my AirPods Pro every few days. This is a non-issue.
https://www.ifpi.org/downloads/Music-Listening-2019.pdf https://www.ifpi.org/downloads/Music-Listening-2019.pdf
Again, I'm not sure that you are an outlier here because of averages vs medians.
If you spend 18 hours per week just listening to music, If even half of that is spent listening to music from your only device, you'll be charging your airpods at least twice a week.
If airpods are additionally used for calls, some two hours a day, you'll have to charge them even more often.
If AirPods are an ubiquitous platform for augmented hearing, "adding context" to what you hear, you'll be charging them at least twice a day.
- jen729w 7y ago> Did you mean for "Average Consumer" just to be your name? Because an average consumer certainly did not pay $1000 for their phone. I should have made it clear that I am in Australia. AU$1k ≈ US$700.
- boomlinde 7y agoThat's closer to what my peers are spending. They are outliers, though, living in a developed country, working well-paying jobs, almost all tech nerds. I have a hard time imagining that the world wide average or even a national average for Australia is anywhere near that. That said, I haven't found any non-paywalled comprehensive survey data on the subject so I'll leave it at that. This seems promising, in case anyone has an account: https://www.statista.com/statistics/283334/average-smartphone-price-by-region/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/283334/average-smartphon...