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Your point?
Your point?
Posted Nov 1, 2006 18:10 UTC (Wed) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)In reply to: Interview with Bernard Leach (iPodLinux) (LinuxInterviews.com) by debacle
Parent article: Interview with Bernard Leach (iPodLinux) (LinuxInterviews.com)
In the U.S. cars are (unfortunately) essential for everyone unless
they're in a dense city like New York. So probably 80% of American
adults have one.
On the other hand, iPods are nowhere near that popular (I'd guess more
like 10% of adults), and the original comparison was just silly.
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Your point?
Posted Nov 2, 2006 0:41 UTC (Thu) by withaar (guest, #4201) [Link]
Off topic, but without wanting to be very nasty: most people do not live in the US.
Your point?
Posted Nov 2, 2006 8:39 UTC (Thu) by debacle (subscriber, #7114) [Link]
My point was: "Everybody has one (car)" is wrong: In my hometown (~3.4 Mega people, Europe) only 50% of the households own a car, muss less an iPod. In the U.S. cars might be useful, they seem to be dispensable in e.g. rural areas of Africa. The point of linuxinterviews.com was "iPods are very popular now", which is true. But when mobile phones get all the multimedia stuff integrated, iPods will be dispensable - just like cars.