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The No. 1 most photographed attraction in Manhattan? It's the Louvre-inspired Apple store on Fifth Avenue.
By Samantha Murphy, TechNewsDaily
Times Square and Rockefeller Center often top the must-see list for New York City-bound tourists, but the Louvre-inspired Apple store on Fifth Avenue is surprisingly the No. 1 most photographed attraction in Manhattan.
Researcher Eric Fischer mapped and analyzed millions of photos on flickr that were taken throughout the city and looked at their geo-tagged information -- such as time and date they were shot -- to determine patterns of interest.
Although the sleek glass exterior of the Fifth Avenue Apple store gets the most pictures, Rockefeller Center (No. 2), Columbus Circle (No. 3) and Times Square (No. 4) were also on the list.
Fischer also looked at popular Apple stores in various other cities, such as Chicago, but the retailer didn't rank as high up on the photo attraction list as its New York flagship location.
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It might be NYC's most photographed building, but it was designed by an architectural firm from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Wow. Pretty sad considering the architectural and other history of NYC.
But, since we learned last week that Apple users' minds give off the same brain waves as people having a religious experience, I guess it makes sense that people want to photograph their Mecca.
This study does not actually imply that the Apple Store is the most photographed thing in NYC. It implies that the Apple Store is the most photographed by people whose cameras geo-tag their pictures and who then upload them to Flickr. It is easy to see how that set of people would likely correlate with owners of, say, smartphones. I imagine many tourists are still probably more interested in the Statue of Liberty.
Let's hope so...
My 60 year old father is just as likely to take a picture of an Apple store as he is to be posting pictures to Flickr.
This 'study' has a horrendous title.
What demographic of people post photographs on Flickr? The same grouping of people that would be interested in Apple product. How freaking dumb.
Somehow I just dont believe this. Getting data from one internet site that no one uses is not even remotely accurate and should not be published. Terrible journalism.
This is not the iconic Apple store on Fifth Ave.
This is it's less attractive knock off store on the Upper West Side @1981 Broadway.
So if there taking photo's, it's of the wrong store.
I laughed when I saw this because I snapped a picture of it when I was there. On the other hand, I'm interested in the history of NYC and took a picture of everything else, too. What a great American city.
This article is complete BS. It should read "most photographed NYC site according to Flickr" Since it would be obvious that Times Square is obviously the most photographed area of all time. Over a hundred years of the camera and MSNBC.crap has the audacity to say and Apple store less than a decade old holds the title? Sorry generations of the past and your photograhy it just isn't recognized as being "real" since it isn't in the virtual world.
Jeesh! Please fire the author of this non-descript, non-important article and pull the funding from Eric for a completely useless study.
Lets try some objective reporting for a change instead of massaging the lemmings ego's.