Do you know what New York City's most photographed attraction is? Rep. Anthony Wiener's penis! Kidding, it's the Apple store uptown. Of course. Nerds.
Do you know what New York City's most photographed attraction is? Rep. Anthony Wiener's penis! Kidding, it's the Apple store uptown. Of course. Nerds.
No no no no! This methodology is so broken. A few points:
* This is only pictures on Flickr, not pictures *taken*.
* This is only for pictures that are publicly shared, not kept private like a lot of normal, non-exhibitionistic less technical users do.
* This is only pictures that are *geocoded*, skewing very heavily towards images that are taken on smartphones, not single-function cameras. And guess what device is the most popular geocoding smartphone? Apple's.
In short, you have a measure of what landmark Apple users are most likely to take photos of and then share in a completely public, discoverable way. Given that a not inconsiderable percentage of every single iPhone sold in NYC is sold in this venue itself, of course it skews this way.
NON SCIENCE.
@anildash Shhhh, you're ruining the sensationalism! And stepping on a perfectly good Anthony Weiner penis joke.
@anildash That was all code for "white people" wasn't it.
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Why don't you illustrate this with a photo of the Anthony Peener?