May 31, 2011 12:00 AM

60 Minutes/Vanity Fair Poll June Edition

  • When a new popular electronic product comes out...

When it comes to buying a new popular electronic product that just came out, half of Americans don't buy it all. Of the remaining half, 13 percent buy it right away while 37 percent wait for a better and less expensive version to come out later. If half of all Americans are really buying these gadgets, it's no wonder that the Apple's of the world are savoring the "sweet smell of success," that's a lot of apples.

This poll was conducted at the CBS News interviewing facility among a random sample of 848 adults nationwide, interviewed by telephone April 28- May 1, 2011. Phone numbers were dialed from random digit dial samples of both standard land-line and cell phones. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample could be plus or minus three percentage points. The error for subgroups is higher. This poll release conforms to the Standards of Disclosure of the National Council on Public Polls. Read more about this poll.



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