no entirely joking.
there are a lot of confounding factors though. prices change over time, lot of people bought p3s when they were the shit and won’t ever switch until it breaks, etc
you’re probably joking, but that’s about right. you could then datamine the information like Brad Pitt in Moneyball to make some decisions.
trends up and down overlaid with events in time, etc.
speaking of trends…taking the cumulative count for the same brands on LAVA’s 2010 list and comparing it to 2011, there’s a little over 4% increase in the total field. so anyone who didn’t pick up roughly 4% didn’t keep pace with inflation. bounce that against a few of the year-over-year differences for brands of interest and things become more interesting.
