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What have you guys been smoking?
Has anyone done statistics and probability?
You folks do realise Morgan Stanley don't know what their doing...400 folks is not a survey. Its a drop in the ocean. If the survey was done with 2 million users, then its a different story.
The survey is skewed because they just asked iPod owners! iPod sales does not equal to Mac sales!
Also, those considering to buy a Mac does not mean they're get one (you don't know). They may look at the prices and the fine-print and think: "Ouch, that's gonna cost me, maybe not."
What you also haven't realised, once you buy a Mac, have a look at what you have to go through if you want to get it repaired!
Apple makes it such that you are put in a situation where its not worth repairing or upgrading a Mac, but to buy a new one! Its like a VCR, its cheaper to replace it with a new one. (Although, its NOT cheap to buy a new Mac!)
This is like when US folks were surveyed and a large majority preferred "the other guy" months before the Election day...Days before the election, it was virtually 50-50...And then George Bush won!
If surveys can be wrong (because the extremely small sample taken and as proven by Elections in the past year), would you trust a prediction based on such a survey?
I was expecting XbitLabs to be smart enough to know not to fall for this marketing bullshit.But I was wrong.
I suggest you repeat the poll again, and see the results, a few months after the initial "ooh wow, Mac Mini" fever has settled in.
Human behaviour isn't fixed, its dynamic. People say they consider a product, but it doesn't mean they'll actually buy one! That's what surveys don't show! The factors that may effect the overall buying decision!
Has anyone done statistics and probability?
You folks do realise Morgan Stanley don't know what their doing...400 folks is not a survey. Its a drop in the ocean. If the survey was done with 2 million users, then its a different story.
The survey is skewed because they just asked iPod owners! iPod sales does not equal to Mac sales!
Also, those considering to buy a Mac does not mean they're get one (you don't know). They may look at the prices and the fine-print and think: "Ouch, that's gonna cost me, maybe not."
What you also haven't realised, once you buy a Mac, have a look at what you have to go through if you want to get it repaired!
Apple makes it such that you are put in a situation where its not worth repairing or upgrading a Mac, but to buy a new one! Its like a VCR, its cheaper to replace it with a new one. (Although, its NOT cheap to buy a new Mac!)
This is like when US folks were surveyed and a large majority preferred "the other guy" months before the Election day...Days before the election, it was virtually 50-50...And then George Bush won!
If surveys can be wrong (because the extremely small sample taken and as proven by Elections in the past year), would you trust a prediction based on such a survey?
I was expecting XbitLabs to be smart enough to know not to fall for this marketing bullshit.But I was wrong.
I suggest you repeat the poll again, and see the results, a few months after the initial "ooh wow, Mac Mini" fever has settled in.
Human behaviour isn't fixed, its dynamic. People say they consider a product, but it doesn't mean they'll actually buy one! That's what surveys don't show! The factors that may effect the overall buying decision!
[Posted by: 223 | Date: 03/22/05 03:58:50 PM]
