iPhone users richer, brainier, more tasteful than Android-ers A massive survey of smartphone users purports to show that iPhone users are sushi-eating leaders, while anyone touting an Android handset prefers steak and following others. The survey comes from Hunch.com, and is compiled from the responses of 15,000 people who volunteered to answer questions on the company's website, so it …
Apple is missing the killer design feature that would attract even more discerning consumers. I'm amazed they haven't added a mirror finish to it! Users could look like they're using some intensely important app, but instead gaze intently into the eyes of the one they love . . .
Get on it Steve. Give your customers what you really want.
Remember the LG shine was for this very purpose. (shame the phone was Cr*p. My daughter insisted on having it cause it was girly and shiny.)
Lg would have a field day I suspect theres a patent on "The mirror" finish and we all know how well Apple likes to tow the line on Patent infringement.
sometimes they just get their mom to buy them an ithing. doesn't mean they're richer. it just means their mom got poorer.
curiously no comments from windows users who got spanked rather wonderfully in the article. reinforces the theory that there may not really be any windows users out there.
It would show that Android user are afraid of the dark and had a childhood marred by authoritarian parents, which makes them prone to vote conservative, own guns, protest income taxes, listen to speeches of Michelle Bachmann or doubt the amerricanosity of Obama.
They should all be re-educated in fresh, new white buildings built in the beautiful green fields of Montana.
I think a fair amount of people with authoritarian right-wing parents end up going completely on the other end, rebelling by believing in such crazy liberal lies as freedom of the person over their own body, health care for even poor people, and governments needing to take in taxes in order to support their most disenfranchised citizens.
More importantly, supporters of Michelle Bachmann are still on Symbian.
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it's true, most ppl who buy BM's are utter wankers.
Most BM's these days are shite anyway. There are a couple of good ones, but the rest are just status symbols.
The 1 series for example is a Rover and is not that dissimilar to a Hyundai i30 and is BMW's best-selling vehicle.
Shame really, I remember the day when I wanted a BMW, same with Audi, I did have an 80 Quattro for a while.
These days, I find Ford's have more allure, not least for the choice of colours!
I must confess that I'd have thought I'd had this phone long enough for some of the purported benefits to have occured.
But alas no. Still haven't dared purchase sushi rather than a ham and cheese sandwich from tesco. Seem to be forgetting more things and I'm fairly sure my pay is middle league. As to the sex angle, I'm married but a bit of attention I could politely decline would be nice.
Perhaps its just me.
.............that they (against *all* the evidence including the bathroom mirror and their girlfriend's howls of laughter) that they will be smarter, sexier, better looking and more popular if they buy this, that or the other product. I am on this occasion however forced to issue my hearty congratulations to the marketing department of Apple Corp. This is the first time that I have ever really seen that form of advertising work on this kind of scale - you guys are clearly worth every penny Apple pay you.
When the truth is closer to perspirational, in that hard work will generally get you further towards your goals than purchasing a certain gadget or vehicle. Such items should be a tool towards an end or a personal reward enjoyed for their own sake.
Talking of perspiration, at least Lynx and Old Spice advertising make a joke of that side of marketing. Though as it's still marketing, the people behind it must by definition be evil drains on society preventing us from reaching our true destiny among the stars.
I've never been able to understand the quasi-religious fervor that some people invest in aspects of technology, it would almost appear that they don't have lives. You buy a phone because it has the features YOU want, I buy one for the features I want. My choice is quite literally of no concern to you and vice versa. Same applies to operating systems, hardware, etc, etc. The fact that people have to trumpet their choices as being better/less evil/packed full of vitamins or whatever, rather implies that they don't have sufficient faith in their choices to just be quietly satisfied with them.
Instead they feel the need to demean the choices of others in order to boost their self-regard and gain the approval of those who are like-minded. This type of puerile behaviour is common in other fields as well, politics, religion, string theory, etc, but seems particularly pathetic when talking about a phone for (insert deity (or none) of choice) sake.
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I thought that it was supposed to be the people that choose Apple products that were the humourless and self-righteous sheep. Judging by the comment here, the opposite seems true. Must we go through this utter banality *everytime* an article that mentions Apple, Google or Android is featured? I know it's the school holidays, but this thread takes the biscuit.
If you are an iPhone user you are more likely to be an upper class citizen with a degree pay'd for by dady, who enjoys musicals, fine wines and spirits and who has more money than sense since. Because for the last 10-20 years you have been buying mac because apple have aimed at the premium market with no real functionality...
Makes me sick...
"iPhone users are more affluent (as the phone is pricier) therefore tend to be older. All else follows from these self-evident facts.
(unless you're a phone-geek you would't purchase an Android device if you could afford an iPhone)."
Another English man talking bollox! Most iphone owners get them free (or seriously reduced) on their mobile contract. Hmmm, that seems to contradict what you've just spouted.
Hardly a sign that they are affluent, more effluent.
Most iphone owners are not intelligent enough to realise that they are being played by Apple, like a fiddle.
And you el Reg, STILL perpetuating the same old shite. What’s up? Got nothing else to report on?
Just stop the same old crap people, we are sick of hearing it.
ranty haters are just bitter and resentful when faced with their own view of themselves and their status in society. They lack the ability to think critically and objectively and can only reassure themselves of their own importance by pouring vitriol and spite onto others who aren't exactly the same as they are. They seem to go in for sweeping generalisations too.
And so we see it here again: BMWs, iPhones, fine wines, upper class, more money than sense, seethe, seethe, hate, hate. Irony is, it all comes across as fatuous and impotent and seems to confirm that what these people aleady fear about themselves is, in fact, true.
Whining is really boring and self-indulgent, please find something interesting to say.
***Whining is really boring and self-indulgent, please find something interesting to say.***
I could say the same to you. Coming in here with that up beat, better-than-you positivism. You are just one uninteresting specimen of humanity among the rest. We all come in to this world naked, we live meaningless lives and we leave this world lying flat. Welcome to a random, meaningless universe.
That's the first time I've been described as "up beat".
As for "meaningless lives", I think it's up to every individual to find some meaning (and some point) to their existence. If people don't want to do that then I don't think they can really justify pouring scorn on those that do. But this may all be too positive for you, if so, I apologize for imposing that on you.
I'm off to chat a iGenius to see how (s)he can make me richer, brainier and more tasteful. (S)he'll probably charge me mightily for the iprivilege but, hey what price cool?
(Sherlock because this tells us everything you need to know about the mentality of the deluded isouls)
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