Mfarhanonline Social Media News: Apple has taken firm root in America. Just over half of all households in the country own at least one Apple product, a new survey says, showing just how far the reach of the company has come in the last decade. At the turn of the 21st century, Apple was in rough shape. It had narrowly avoided bankruptcy, and Steve Jobs’ return as CEO a few years earlier was turning the company around, but the market share of its products — then almost exclusively Mac computers — was dismal, at about 2% worldwide . Then came the iPod , which begat the iPhone and the iPad . As Apple’s gadgets gobbled up market share (and in some cases created new markets), its Macs experienced a rebound, too. Now, according to CNBC’s All-American Economic Survey , 51% of U.S. households own at least one Apple product. Few brands have such a deep reach among American consumers. Certainly, product categories such as refrigerators or even smartphones have achieved even deeper penetration, but looking at single companies, it’s a short list with probable names such as GE (light bulbs) or 3M (Scotch tape). Reducing to just technology companies would make it even shorter. SEE ALSO: Sorry, Google: Apple is America's Valentine This Year STUDY Of the households that own Apple products, they own an average of three, making the overall ownership rate of the American public 1.6 Apple products per household. About 25% plan to buy another Apple product in the next year. The survey shows Apple buyers tend to skew male, young, with higher education and incomes (77% of households making $75,000 or more have an Apple product). If you have kids, the likelihood of being an Apple household grows — 61% compared with 48% if you don’t. As far as politics is concerned, both Republicans and Democrats appear to like Apple products equally,! with 56 % of people counting themselves a member of either party owning Apple, although a greater portion of Democrats plan to buy more products soon. CNBC’s survey polled 836 Americans via both landlines and cellphones over three days in March. The network says it has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4%. Do you own Apple products? Why did you pick Apple instead of another brand? Let us know in the comments. Image courtesy of iStockphoto , arakonyunus BONUS: The History of Mac OS X A Timeline of Mac OS For nearly 30 years, the Macintosh operating system has helped define desktop computing. With the announcement of OS X Mountain Lion, Apple is readying for its next evolution and is getting closer than ever at merging the desktop with the mobile OS. Let’s take a look back at 28 years of Mac OS history. Click here to view this gallery. More About: apple , ipad , iphone , ipod , mac Social Media reviews series maintain by Mayya
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