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   Maybe

   

   dorpus, Dec 17th, 2004 @ 2:48am

   
   

   Maybe the future will see old people passing around MP3's to deliver long religious or political speeches -- probably not the "liberating" applications that young people have in mind today. ;)
   

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   RJD, Dec 17th, 2004 @ 6:54am

   
   

   Okay, I'm one of the 35 or older crowd who owns that high cost MP3 player. And it kinda makes sense. I don't really find much on the radio these days I care to listen to so having 10000+ songs with me I know I enjoy makes sense if I'm going to include music in my day. When I was younger, finding music on the radio wasn't terribly hard so why would I have wanted to invest in a high end MP3 player when a low end with FM radio capability would probably be the smarter buy.

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   A few reasons I think this is true.

   

   Cigar Jack, Dec 17th, 2004 @ 7:18am

   
   

   How many of these were bought as gifts for teens/college kids by parents? As stated above the newer music isn't as appealing to people over 35. Heck I'm 27 and I hardly listen to it. Instead of getting an MP3 player I purchased a XM Radio. Also you can purchase Audio books in mp3 format and also the 35 and over crowd is more heal concious and more apt to work out so that probably also drives the purchase of an MP3 player.

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   I don't believe it

   

   Alan, Dec 17th, 2004 @ 7:39am

   
   

   "Of the respondents in the survey indicating they own an MP3 player"
   What is the age distribution of those surveyed? That is a very important piece of information that is missing, without that number, the 90% means nothing.

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   Re: I don't believe it

   

   Michael De Muth, Dec 17th, 2004 @ 8:45am

   
   

   Too true, but that is not the way you get the high impact headlines. This could also have been labeled 'those over 35 more likely to participate in surveys'. Doesn't quite have the same ring to it, does it?
   

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   Re: I don't believe it

   

   Anonymous Coward, Dec 17th, 2004 @ 9:58am

   
   

   um, no. They need to validate their survey by putting that bit of information in. He's right. You don't make a headline out of it, you put it in your research, just like everything else.

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   Re: I don't believe it

   

   Anonymous Coward, Dec 17th, 2004 @ 1:56pm

   
   

   Yeah, I don't believe it either. From my personal straw poll (people I've seen with mp3 players in public) I'd say the 90-10 split goes the other way. Also, the high price argument doesn't wash because, although the iPod gets all the press, I've only ever seen one, whereas I've seen dozens of USB thumbdrives.

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   Re: I don't believe it

   

   Anonymous Coward, Dec 20th, 2004 @ 1:27am

   
   

   Round the University where I work every third student has an MP3 player but only a tiny number of members of staff. Rubbish survey.

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   Anonymous Coward, May 22nd, 2007 @ 1:46pm

   
   

   freaky 'survey'. It sounds more like a survey intended specifically for news purposes only.

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