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- empeethree, on 10/12/2007, -47/+364fanboys can only surf so fast one handed.
- austindkelly, on 10/12/2007, -16/+113@TheElectricMonk
Wow man, that joke was so over your head! - trghpy, on 10/12/2007, -11/+102Cuz we're always trying to build the fastest / most expensive dream system we can think of.
It's the closest some of us will ever come to owning a mac.
In all reality, its probably because of itunes.apple.com. - maize, on 10/12/2007, -9/+63Actually, I would say that a lot of them spend considerable time checking out specific products with the intention of buying them, especially the ipod. Also, I know I spend some time looking at the movie trailers hosted on their site, and combine that with perhaps itunes, and you have your answer right there.
- pennifred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+50Considering these appear to be for January only, I'm going to vote Macworld keynote.
- miles01110, on 10/12/2007, -3/+49Apparently you missed the "Contact Us" link at the bottom of the page. Is the scroll wheel on your mighty mouse broken too?
http://www.apple.com/contact/ - JernejL, on 10/12/2007, -10/+53They are probably all trying to find the quicktime download without itunes bundle.
- sysoprock, on 10/12/2007, -3/+44Dad: "Junior, What are you doing in there? It's been over an hour already!"
Son: "Uhh, nothing Dad I'm just checking out the new Macbooks, I'm OK."
Dad: "Oh yeah? Did they finally upgrade them to the Core 2 Duos, I want to see..."
Son: "NO DON'T COME IN!"
Dad: "OH MY GOD" - Matrixsjd, on 10/12/2007, -4/+40Bill,
to quote you from another post
"about a week ago i went onto apple's website to get some help because my computer had crashed, and i had lost everything. however when i tried to contact them i found out that this is virtually impossible. there are no contact numbers, no email addresses, and the forums are crap, i have an account and IT WONT LET ME POST ANYTHING! please help me..."
So you mean to say your computer crashed as well as your iPod? Kinda hard to believe, seems like you're just trying to start something. - edgecurve, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33Maybe so. I'm a Mac user too by the way...just being sarcastic. I watch movie trailers at Apple all the time and those take up quite a bit of time too.
- node3, on 10/12/2007, -4/+32@trghpy
"In all reality, its probably because of itunes.apple.com."
Ironic, given the host doesn't actually exist, in reality. :-) - timlopez, on 10/12/2007, -9/+35It's probably the movie trailers they have on their site, as well as other web media.
- totorototoro, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26probably this page:
http://images.apple.com/ipod/nike/images/indexhero20070207.png - Odweaver, on 10/12/2007, -9/+29Lets see:
iTunes Store
Quicktime Trailers site
Apple online store
The demos in Apple store.
Yep, seems to add up - soopafly, on 10/12/2007, -6/+25"Mac users are looking for the left click button"
I think it's right click :-/ - RohanMowTheLawn, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22or maybe it because when you open safari in the apple stores it goes to apple.com and many people may just leave it open.
- Tmacman, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21• Apple 1:19:25; 43.5
• Dell, 0:19:32; 15.6
Maybe it's just too depressing to log onto the Dell site for more than 20 mins. - goodoldharris, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20Here's my speculation: a lot of people have the apple site always open in a browser window or tab, and this fact completely skews the numbers. The skew would be even more dramatic if having iTunes open to the iTunes store is counted as an Apple site visit. Not sure how the survey was done, so just speculation.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17trailers.apple.com?
I know I waste lots of time there sometimes. - randf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15one handed surfing or not, i'm sure that many people open up 6-9 different tabs on their browsers at a time without closing out unused tabs.
webmail alone could account for long sessions. building/manipulating web pages, sending icards, browsing support discussions?
i'm on a PC at work, but open up my synced safari bookmarks and leave that tab open for hours at a time.
one+ hour is not all that surprising. - soopafly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Wow Bill,
Maybe it's time to give up computers and go back to the ol' paper and pencil. - SteaminTmann, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I can only imagine the staggering numbers if digg did an average study like this...
i dont know about you guys, but for me, time spent on digg > time asleep - MeltedUFO, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16iTunes does connect to apple.com. If you go to a website that has a podcast and click subscribe using iTunes, the link location goes to phobos.apple.com.
- soopafly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Wow..that extra "PERIOD" at the end really brought it home. Congrats!
- dmoney06, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16I know when I was a PC user and was looking into switching, I would spend hours and hours reading up on the products and software on their site. Its a really friendly site for that kind of thing, its great.
- Adamacus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Yeah, cause i like to open my homepage and stare at it for an hour...
- Vermifax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I'm sure that at least 40% of the traffic is from potential switchers.
When you're older, you'll understand. - tracydanger, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13.Mac - I don't have an account, but my friend has e-mail through that, which is on the apple site as far as I can tell. All those people checking e-mail would increase the average time.
- hotdamn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Seriously people, they can't tell how long you left it open, your http session expires after 15 minutes approx.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12yay boobs ... eh.. ipod!
- Vermifax, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10FYI, you're being Dugg down (by Mac and PC users alike) for being a ***** news stand.
Also, all seven of my Macs have right-click buttons. Can you at least update your half-assed attempts at lame insults? - Marku$, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11wasn't Apple supposed to have a special event today ?
- Vermifax, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I'll list a few other reasons for the extended visits:
http://www.apple.com/education/
http://www.apple.com/pro/
http://www.apple.com/macatwork/
http://developer.apple.com/
http://www.apple.com/macpro/
http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/
http://www.apple.com/iphone/
http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/
http://www.apple.com/logicpro/
http://www.apple.com/getamac/
The average teen-age basement gamer probably wouldn't be interested in any of those, so... - speedfoot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7us mac users don't want you using our products, especially if you can't find how to contact apple. they must be the easiest people to get a hold of. or you can just go to an apple store...
- HellifIno, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This probably doesn't relate to the metric (at least I hope it doesn't), but I view ALL new movie trailers via www.apple.com/trailers/. Meh, it works, every time.
- aftershave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I can take the mystery out of this statistic.
You open apple.com/store url, find something (anything) and then spend 1 hour 20 minutes begging your wife to let you buy it. She says no, and then you repeat it the next day. - NewChar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Just wanted to say I accidentally hit the 'Thumbs down' because I was laughing so hard at your post. My apologies good sir.
- Vermifax, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8The loan approval takes less than 20 seconds.
You never bothered to apply, huh? Smart choice, Loser. - icedevil6, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Trailers. Apple is a great source for movie trailers. I watch them all the time. If I visit weekly I might check out ten trailers, which would equate to at least forty minutes of viewing time, plus a minute loading for each (HD). Then just tack on anything else Apple added in the week and it adds up to a bit more than an hour spent on Apple.com.
- kuribo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8@pennifred
Exactly. One hour seems like the amount of time it would have taken a single picture of the iPhone to load when it was first announced, considering every computer in the world was hammering Apple's site. - chevyorange, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5At least at Apple Stores you can actually USE the internet on the computers on display.
- MOGua, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"they must be the easiest people to get a hold of."
Not really...My sister's macbook HDD died a couple of days ago (can't even reinstall OS X because the system sees no hard drive)
and guess what? Apple doesn't have 24 hour phone support!
They did send her the HDD along with the aluminum bracket though (damn those weird Torx screws) - dimplemonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It may be true. I always like to visit the Quicktime Trailers section and see all the upcoming movies and laugh at some of the older trailers of movies I've already seen. Sometimes, I will even download the 720p version if it's a classic.
- josegutz, on 10/12/2007, -9/+13Is it really that fascinating? Are Apple fans that obsessed? Does anyone know if iTunes users connect to apple.com and they would be counted towards this?
Answers: 1. No, 2. Yes, 3. Yes.... - dreampilot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I think i've got the answer
who cares - buddhistMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The reason for the big numbers is simple: last month's MacWorld keynote was over two hours long, and the iPhone intro portion, which is available separately for viewing, was an hour-and-a-half. It was one of the most viewed keynotes ever, and you can get to it with only two clicks from Apple's homepage.
Here's the direct link: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/mwsf07/
I would expect next month's numbers to plummet, certainly to well under an hour, unless Apple broadcasts another special event to announce Leopard or more groovy hardware. - eleven59, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7i look on it dreaming of one day owning some mac computers and what specs i can get and also the trailers section...
what i don't understand is all the comments about windows PC users bragging about being able to use 3 button mouses and apple users apparently are at a disadvantage with just one??? do you guys not know that a lot of 3 wheel button mice can be used with apple computers and that most apple users get by by using left hand shortcuts while they actually do work on their computers?? so either they don't care bc they're use to the short cuts, they use the mighty mouse with scroll, or they use their favorite 3 button.
i also find it hypocritical that you call apple users "fanboys" when the opposite is true for those that back windows. if OSX isn't as good as windows as you claim, then you're no diff at being a fanboy of windows than a OSX user is a fanboy of apple.
but seeing as though my windows user experience has been short of "hell on a computer", and my and every other OSX user i know (which ironically all used to be windows users.. hmmm.. theories as why anyone??) OSX experience is no where close as painful, i can't imagine why anybody would even want to be a windows fanboy. but that's just my opinion, which apparently you can't have anymore. - sparks2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5One link:
www.apple.com/trailers
That right there is enough to keep me on for a looooong time.
Then it's very likely I jumpt over to the downloads section and browse for some widgets, automator events, scripts etc... that also takes some time
And heck if i'm feeling like buying something i'll then go to the store section and browse through stuff there (including reading specs of new computers and parts and whatnot)
There is enough stuff to do so that you can stay there for a long time... if i go to dell.com or microsoft.com there's nothing to keep me there, i'll get what i want and leave... - allers31485, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I agree with you. My experiences with Windows were always hell too. The only reason I ever bought a notebook PC was because a lot of the programs I had to run for college wouldn't run on Mac yet. now that the issue is resolved, I bought a MacBook and I use Mac again. i've never heard anyone complain about a Mac that has actually OWNED one. just windows hysterics who have never even bothered using a Mac. Yet us, who have used Windows extensively have tons to complain about I'm sure. People slamming Mac "fanboys' are nothing but Windows "Fanboys". You're right.
PS: Get used to not being able to have an opinion. People today think they are right about everything. I just end up agreeing because they aren't worth the time of day. - clord, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I spend hours sometimes watching HD trailers, too.
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