August 04, 2007
Bubbles
I was sitting typing away next to Garance Franke-Ruta today as we waited for Barack Obama’s break-out session to start at Yearly Kos when Matthew Yglesias came over and looked at the press riser—Apple MacBooks outnumbered PC laptops by five or six to one, he exclaimed, “You’d think from this convention that Bill Gates ran some niche computer company and that Apple had a 90 percent market share.”
That caused Garance to remark, “You can tell how far you outside the mainstream of America by the number of Apple computers around you.” Then she added, “Another good way? The number of people around you who d yoga. The real number is six percent of the population.”
So if I know of almost no one who doesn’t have an Apple or does yoga, does that mean I'm really really outside the mainstream?
