iPhone 4S show, also, REISINGERRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!
Direct Link to Episode 133
Links:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Apple-iPhone-4S-Wont-Be-as-Successful-as-Expected-10-Reasons-Why-157135/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kylesmith/2011/10/12/steve-jobs-was-a-lousy-role-model/
http://gawker.com/5849543/harvard-cancer-expert-steve-jobs-probably-doomed-himself-with-alternative-medicine
http://blogs.computerworld.com/19101/thousands_queue_to_buy_iphone_4s_for_steve
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/icloud-vs-exchange-gmail-pick-your-choice-wisely/18987
http://www.winsupersite.com/article/paul-thurrotts-wininfo/wininfo-short-takes-october-14-2011-140904
http://9to5mac.com/2011/10/16/find-my-friends-catches-wife-cheating-brings-privacy-issues-to-forefront/
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/14/us-apple-users-idUSTRE79D68V20111014
http://www.pcworld.com/article/241967/sleazy_ads_on_android_devices_push_bogus_battery_upgrade_warnings.html
http://www.forbes.com/sites/benzingainsights/2011/10/04/apple-unveils-the-iphone-4s-aka-the-iphone-rehash-edition/
http://healthland.time.com/2011/10/17/study-1-in-6-cell-phones-contaminated-with-fecal-matter/
10/20/11
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An "unwalled garden" is a good way to end up with hobos sleeping in your flowerbed.
ReplyDeleteApropos of the charity war between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, that stuff takes a lot of time. I'd guess that if Steve Jobs spent the amount of time necessary to do charity at the level Bill Gates does, there would be a ton of rage about how he wouldn't have done his job as Apple CEO.
ReplyDeleteSo, I'm not going to validate the Reuters research methods (they don't actually mention them), but you can't really judge the validity of the survey based on the sample size. It could very well be sufficient, which you can perform a power analysis to determine. Hopefully, Reuters has a stats dweeb they consult for such surveys.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, Thurrotts is a dick and wash your hands!
Charles
...sigh.
ReplyDeleteEvery mother humping time we point out a shitty "survey" someone has to point out that small sample sizes do not per se invalidate a survey.
No shit.
In one of my numerous previous lives I coordinated customer satisfaction surveying for one of the top 5 ISPs in the US. I'm pretty well versed in how sampling works.
That said, Reuters had better have a mother fucking stats wizard to be able to pull any significant conclusions from a sample of 127 out of a population of around 4 million.
That's ignoring the other myriad factors that Reuters fails to mention:
- The "survey" was conducted over 6 countries. Were the questions modified for cultural differences?
- Did the sample account for potential differences between carrier customers? For instance AT&T and Verizon customers are probably more likely to be existing iPhone owners while Sprint customers are almost certainly not.
- Since the article didn't even bother to let us know that the question asked was, we have no way of knowing if it was properly phrased to avoid bias. "Why are you buying an iPhone?" will elicit different responses than "Did you buy this iPhone to replace an Android/Blackberry/WinMo etc...?"
No, I think I'm going to go with our good buddy Occam and assume that the reporters did what reporters do - sent someone down to an Apple Store and asked a few random people questions. That's fine for getting some quotes for the story, but it ain't fucking science.