Owning one of the devices from the Apple family is said to be a strong sign that your income is at a high level. At least according to the latest study from National Bureau of Economic Research. Two University of Chicago economists, Marianne Bertrand and Emir Kamenica, collected all available data and they analyzed temporal trends and differences in income, education, gender, race, and political ideology. Finally, they came to an interesting conclusion.
The documentary deals with the topic of households, high incomes and what products are best used to determine whether a person has a high income or not. If he owns an iPhone, there is a 69% chance he has a higher income. But the same applies to iPad owners. According to research, even an iPad can be a great sign that its owner earns more money. In this case, however, the percentage dropped slightly to 67%. But owners of Android devices or Verizon users are not far behind, and economists have determined that they have a roughly 60 percent chance of high income.
It is interesting how the products that determine the income of their owners change over the years. While today it is about owning an iPhone, iPad, Android phone or Samsung TV, in 1992 it was different. People with higher incomes recognized each other by using Kodak film and buying Hellmann's mayonnaise. In 2004, people with higher incomes had Toshiba televisions in their homes, used AT&T, and had Land O'Lakes Regular butter in their refrigerators. What products will probably be a sign of higher income in, for example, 10 years? We don't even dare to guess.
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Well, I do not know. I certainly do not consider myself a person with high incomes, rather the opposite. But I have an Apple Watch, iPhone, Airpods, Apple TV and now I bought a Mac mini. I only have a new Watch and Airpods. iPhone bazaar 7 Plus. Now I gave it to my girlfriend and bought a new SE for 7777. We got the Apple TV for free at iStyle when I bought my girlfriend an iPad Pro. I bought an older Late 2012 Mac mini because of the RAM expandability to 16GB. I don't have Apple products because I want to demonstrate my affiliation with someone or something, but because I really like technology and I like it when it works. After experiences with Android and Windows, I went to Apple and I don't regret it. I rather go by the saying that I'm not rich enough to buy cheap things. After the experience with the Note 3, when after half a year Samsung stopped updating and I had Android 5.0 and then nothing, thank you very much. And it wasn't a mobile for 3 thousand either. For the same money as AW, I could have a Samsung Gear, but with only a fraction of the apps, and the Tizen system itself kills it. iPads are value for money in comparison. For 8000 you have an iPad 2018. Support guaranteed. A million apps. In that price, there is only some Huhlavaj with Android, where the manufacturer's updates will be coughed up in half a year. Mac mini with 16GB RAM and SSD drive runs like clockwork. Xcode just flies compared to, for example, Android Studio on Windows, where I had a computer with 20GB of RAM, 4 cores at 4GHz and an SSD disk. The android emulator took a minute to start. All the things I have from Apple work great together. I wouldn't have been able to achieve that on any other platform.
Toshiba TV? So she got me..