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Where are all my iPods?

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Leander Kahney publishes an interesting discovery:

"About 80 percent of Microsoft employees who have a portable music player have an iPod," said one source, a high-level manager who asked to remain anonymous. "It's pretty staggering."

The source estimated 80 percent of Microsoft employees have a music player -- that translates to 16,000 iPod users among the 25,000 who work at or near Microsoft's corporate campus. "This irks the management team no end," said the source.

Well, let's see. We are about 250 people in our team. Now, following the impecable line of logic highlighted above, our group must have in total 0.8 * 250 = 200 iPods. But I don't see anybody else having any. So, logically, I must be the one who has them all. I just can't remember where I put them...

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  • Anonymous
    February 02, 2005
    The key to that statistic is the "who have a portable music player" part. Unless of course everyone on your team has a portable music player. Hmm, so does this mean that Microsoft is working on an ipod killer???
  • Anonymous
    February 02, 2005
    Shouldn't that be 160 IPods? Or does everyone on the team have a portable digital music player of some sort?

    Anyway, I guess you must be happy with all 160 of them. What generation are they? Any minis? :-)
  • Anonymous
    February 02, 2005
    >> Shouldn't that be 160 IPods?

    :-)

    No: 250 * 0.8 = 200, not 160. The numbers in the article are wrong too: 80% from 25,000 is 20,000.
  • Anonymous
    February 02, 2005
    No: first quote: 80% of employees who have a player have an ipod. Then below: 80% of employees have a player. 0.8 * 0.8 * 250 = 160.
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    February 02, 2005
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    February 02, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    February 02, 2005
    Thanks for correction... In the end, this is good news: I'll have to search for 40 iPods less :-)
  • Anonymous
    February 02, 2005
    Good luck. Please keep us posted!
  • Anonymous
    February 03, 2005
    Maybe they're in the same place as Microsoft's IE security policies?
  • Anonymous
    February 04, 2005
    Well, Apple iPods are like 100x better then any other music player so if you have one, then you only need to find, like, .6 more?!

    ;)

    I think there's as much logic and facts in this post then the figures you're quoting!!
  • Anonymous
    February 06, 2005
    >> Well, Apple iPods are like 100x better then any other music player so if you have one, then you only need to find, like, .6 more?!


    Good point :-)
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    March 24, 2008
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