This article was published on December 27, 2012

Meet Ms.Mac 2012: ā€œThe average female Mac user is pretty hot, if awkwardly dressedā€


Meet Ms.Mac 2012: ā€œThe average female Mac user is pretty hot, if awkwardly dressedā€

Turns out 18 percent of female Mac users have an unusually large head, more than half of them have freckles, and only 9 percent wear skirts.

That is at least according to BlueStacks, a Silicon Valley company that enables Android apps to run on Windows and Mac computers.

The ā€˜Ms.Mac 2012ā€™ infographic weā€™ve embedded below is based on stats BlueStacks gathered from surveying Mac users among its 1.1 million Facebook fans, coupled with recent research from Nielsen.

Iā€™d be surprised if more than half of female Mac users are really under 20 years old, but I definitely believe 2 percent of them have blue hair.

The company has made the infographic to celebrate todayā€™s beta release of ā€˜Mobile App Player for Macā€™, opening up access to 750,000+ Android apps for the first time on Macs (you can download it from the BlueStacks website). A previous alpha version was released in June 2012 and came with a small set of pre-loaded app partners such as Fruit Ninja and Pulse.

Weā€™ll give Mobile App Player for Mac a whirl later on to see if itā€™s any good and ā€“ gasp ā€“ safe in its beta stage.

For what itā€™s worth, BlueStacks claims the PC version of its App Player software has been in beta since early 2012 and has been installed on over 5 million computers from its website.

Says BlueStacks VP of Marketing, John Gargiulo, about ā€˜Ms.Mac 2012ā€™:

ā€œIt turns out the average Mac user is pretty hot, if awkwardly dressed. We felt like mad scientists putting her together these past two months.ā€

Last year, the company used data from 145,000 Facebook fans to mock up ā€˜Mr. Android 2011ā€™ (spoiler: only 5 percent of them wear flip-flops).

BlueStacksā€™ Senior Data Scientist, Lokesh Setia, Ph.D., adds:

ā€œThe increase in sample size gave us a lot more to work with in determining what makes up the prototypical Mac user today.

The blouses were a surprise. Apparently, females who use Macs very much enjoy blouses.ā€

Apparently so.

Top image: Spencer Platt / Getty Images

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