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An article out today with some good stats :  http://www.businessinsider.com/iphone-v-android-market-share-2014-5 2011 Pew study... http://www.pewinternet.org/2011/07/11/smartphone-adoption-and-usage/ More good stats...more anecdotal but interesting nonetheless...

I've never seen stats or studies on the purchase demographics of Beats. I'm sure they have internal numbers. No doubt Beats are popular among White teens - college students? Past that? Who does Beats appeal to?  Soccer moms? Geeky CS grads? 30's/40's family men?

200k/yr  or 300k/yr income is middle class? The 94th-97th percentiles are middle class? Since when is 2 standard deviations from the mean, "average".  Do people think before they write?

Anecdotes don't mean anything.  I'm sure there are Blacks who vote Republican. Would I be wrong in saying that most Blacks vote Democrat?  Look at the stats. Most of Apple's sales are made to a certain demographic. Do all Whites own apple products? Do all minorities own android products...

This isn't about the Beats brand per se and it's even less about the streaming service. Apple could just clone the service if it wanted to. What this is about is Apple trying to open up a new market for traditional Apple products. Look at the demographics of those who purchase Apple products. ...

American Blacks left in droves due to the rising cost of living and were supplanted by Caribbean Blacks. American Blacks were, for the most part , poor in NYC while Caribbean Blacks are not ( a substantial percentage work in city jobs and as nurses).   The socio-economic dynamic has changed in...

Whoever said 100% automated? You're presenting a straw man argument. Automation eliminates a lot of routine work but not all work.  This is a pretty thorough explanation from someone who has more than enough experience in the sector. There are plenty of examples in there...

Pay = pedestal. Yes, it is a high pedestal. I'm not talking about the perceived respect that doctors believe they are owed/ not owed or whether some believe that they deserve to make more money. According to the wages that our society has set, doctors are on a high pedestal. Pre Vietnam war...

How many doctors are leading breakthroughs in medicine or  how many physicians' day to day work involves working with brand new medical technologies? The vast majority of doctors, especially non-surgeons, perform routine procedures day in and day out. It is work that demands a high skill set (...

Same arguments were made about other field that succumbed to a high degree of automation.  " You can't trust robots to build cars, humans lives are at stake. What of the robot misses a weld...." " You can't trust networks of computers with people's pension funds. Trading is all about trust...

The exact same thing was said about brokers ( or any other number of professions which got hit hard by automation). "Who would trust computers with trillions of dollars in transactions?" "It's the personal connections that will keep the stock brokers in business."

Just wanted to add that if doctors think the profession is miserable now just wait until modern tech gets a hold.  Stock brokers used to be very important as well and made tons of money. Then came electronic trading and the once famed stock broker is akin to a dinosaur. Same thing will happen...

I agree with you. Most people wouldn't put in the time to properly self diagnose, even if they all the info at their disposal. However, they wouldn't need to.  If the industry was deregulated (not in the sense that any bum could prescribe medicine but in the sense that there could actually be...

Why is that? IMO, it's because primary care physicians are vastly overpaid and are conferred way too much importance in the medical chain. Especially taking into account the web/mobile apps and their widespread use among the general populace.  We might as well call primary care doctors what...

All a bunch of nonsense.  The problem is that the vast majority of medical doctors who are not happy got into it for the money/ prestige. The problem being that they thought they'd be filthy rich. When reality hits and you're only "sort of rich", disappointment sets in to say the least. ...

Budapest was awesome. Not Eastern at all. I was also afraid of that but Budapest was very western oriented even during their communist days.

Going with the gf. Thought about it but when I visited Budapest a few months ago but most people said that Vienna is only worth a day trip. In addition it's dumb expensive. 

Yeh, I've heard about London. Beautiful city though. Houses/ apartments here are pretty big. Probably has to do with large families. People try to have at least 3 kids.  "Be fruitful and multiply"  I'm not bagging. The US is just as much my country as yours. No country is perfect. I know...

Going soon. Any suggestions?

For the purposes of this argument we have to distinguish between Arabs and non-Jews.  Most Arabs in Israel live in their own villages/towns and are really not integrated into Israeli society. Haifa ( the 3rd largest Israeli city) has a significant Arab population (about 20%) that is integrated...