Electric Gadget Inter-City Challenges

Retrevo does some interesting surveys that I have covered before. Their new Gadget Census study pits the following U.S. cities against each other to see who has the most consumer electronics per capita. This census was conducted online from March, 2010 through July, 2010 and received over 7,500 individual responses from Retrevo users distributed across gender, age, and location.

1. San Francisco vs. New York

San Francisco has more Online TVs (12% more)

San Francisco has more Mac OS computers (94% more)

San Francisco has more iPhones (23% more)

New York has 56% more BlackBerries than San Francisco

New York has 30% more iPads than San Francisco

New York has 34% more e-Readers than San Francisco

2. Boston vs. L.A.

Boston: 44% more BlackBerries

Boston: 43% more e-Readers

L.A.: 11% more iPhones

L.A.: 54% more Mac OS computers

L.A.: 24% more game consoles

L.A.: 16% more Blu-ray players

3. Washington D.C. vs. Chicago

Washington D.C.: 53% more Blackberries

Washington D.C.: 50% more e-Readers

Chicago: 23% more Macs

Chicago.: 45% more people streaming music

Chicago.: 66% more people with more than 3 TVs

So the East coast seems the winner in BlackBerries and e-Readers. The West coast has more Macs and iPhones. LA plays a lot of games and Chicago watches a lot of TV. Now I am counter culture as I live in Boston and have a Mac and an iPhone.