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August 9, 2011

Baltimore not very "iPad-friendly": report

Why is Men's Health always hatin' on Baltimore?

The latest indignity from the magazine, which featured a story today on its homepage titled: The Top 10 Muscles Women Love", disses our natives' technology/gadget habits.

Mashable reports on a survey by Men's Health that ranks 100 U.S. cities in terms of "iPad friendliness."

Plano, Texas, came in first place. Baltimore came in 97th. (Toleda, Ohio, came in last.)

Ouch.

Mind you, in March, Baltimore ranked #58 on their list of most socially-networked cities in the U.S.

Hey, at least we're not Stockton, Calif., which ranked 98th in the iPad friendly survey and 95 in the social media networking survey.

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Posted by Gus Sentementes at 5:15 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Categories: *NEWS*, Gadgets

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The title is misleading. The list appears to be based primarily on how many people use iPads, not how "friendly" a city is. I would take "friendly" to mean infrastructure, public wifi, local apps, etc. But that would require actual research.

And if this list is any indication, they hate on Baltimore because a large part of the city is ghetto and therefore reflects negatively on the percentages they rely on to create these lists.

Posted by: ReggieW | August 10, 2011 1:03 PM

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About Gus G. Sentementes

Gus G. Sentementes (@gussent on Twitter) has been writing for The Baltimore Sun since 2000. He's covered real estate, business, prisons, and suburban and Baltimore City crime and cops. He was one of the first reporters at The Sun to use multimedia tools and Web applications -- a video camera, an iPhone -- to cover breaking news. He hopes to cover Maryland geeks and the gadgets and Web sites they build, and learn -- and share -- something new every day.

Gus has a wife, a young daughter and two feuding cats. They live in Northeast Baltimore.

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