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Fondle my slab, baby: Inside the tactile world of Apple-fan iDating
Even in the hearts of Apple fanbois, there's room to love another human being as well as machinery. But it's better if the human receiving that love also has an iPad, say those who are presumably experts in the matter. Working on the basis that Apple fanbois/girls will be happier if they date other lovers of fruitchomp-branded …
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Monday 13th February 2012 11:33 GMT cocknee
Good
It'll keep the smug, selfish, vacuous, shallow, gullible and ever so superior (whilst really having an inferiority complex that has to be hidden with designer tosh and need to be wanted by being in a gang) types away from the rest of us.
Though imagine their children........truly frightening. Though I think Strike Vomit has it about right!
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Monday 13th February 2012 12:21 GMT Zog The Undeniable
Brings a whole new meaning to "not tonight dear, I'm on the iPad".
Naturally, you are expected to upgrade your iPartner every year when a slightly different model appears on the market. Normally this involves a cosmetic change in colour, although the basic functionality (iNag, iSpend, iWatchVacuousTV) is much the same.
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Monday 13th February 2012 12:36 GMT Cave Dweller
I'm quite happy that my fiancé and I both disdain apple products and are fans of Windows. Maybe tech product choice is related to compatibility (various puns intended).
There most certainly should not be a dating site for Microsoft fans, by which I mean the entire MSN site should be ripped down.
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Monday 13th February 2012 12:43 GMT cocknee
Surely some mistake
Wot not a single thumbs down on a "taking the piss out of fanboi" comments.
Not a single praise of the cult of Cupertino?
Usually there's plenty of them with their sense-of-humour bypass with paranoia at the scientologist levels for all dissent.
Have they run out of wi-fi in the coffee shops? Or is it just too early in the day and they haven't finished stoking each-others ego's, slabs, Jesus phones?
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Monday 13th February 2012 14:16 GMT ThomH
You're imagining it
This is de rigeur around here - the sense-of-humour bypass allegation simply isn't supported by the facts and most of the comments above are good-humoured jokes; you generally need to cross the line into malicious trolling to get significant down votes or ill-tempered responses.
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Monday 13th February 2012 16:59 GMT Aaron Em
Sod you ThomH
...okay, so I'm just doing it to make a point, so what? Say something controversial, especially about nuclear power, and see how long you go on believing that only "malicious trolling" -- which, incidentally, how'd you reliably identify it as such? How do you know you haven't only spotted the incompetent ones? -- is the only way to make yourself unpopular around here.
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Monday 13th February 2012 12:44 GMT Jedit
"The users come back because they know what they're getting."
Yes - they're getting charged $5 a month to do what OKCupid lets you do for free. That there are also massively fewer potential contacts doesn't seem to matter to them, it's "weeding out the hoi-polloi".
The price of fruitdom is eternal virginity.
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Monday 13th February 2012 13:00 GMT Evil Auditor
Linux dating site?
"If it were a Linux fan dating site I could swear there would be many more males than females."
Except that Linux guys don't date. Well, probably not that different to the apple fanbois. Presumably, on iDating they are looking for a gal named Fleshlight iPad...
(I wanted to insult Windows lusers as well but couldn't be arsed.)
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Monday 13th February 2012 13:34 GMT Jonathan White
I kind of don't mind this - look, at least they'll have something in common. That's always a good thing, even if what they've got in common is a bit.. unusual.
Good luck to them I say. I'd rather the world was filled with people who want to get on, to whatever degree, than being filled with people whose main kick in life seems to be hurling insults at another group of people on the likes of the El Reg forums.
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Monday 13th February 2012 17:43 GMT Jean-Luc
my $.02
I have mostly Mac stuff @ home right now. (no, don't go all "fanboi" on me, I'll easily switch if I find something that suits _me_ better). Being single, I also hang out on dating sites from time to time.
And, yes, there are occasional ladies who put "Mac" under their likes/hobbies. Saw one "Linux", once. No "Windows", ever (sorry, "Cave Dweller").
I have mixed feelings about this: I find it rather pathetic to list an OS as one of your dating criteria. Especially with the "too cool for school" attitude of the Cupertinorati. Snobbish, basically.
On the other hand, it does denote interest in computers, albeit potentially in a most superficial way.
To date, I've only seen this as a curiosity, but there are people who care, apparently.
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Tuesday 14th February 2012 11:13 GMT Euchrid
It's almost as if this is just linkbait
From this article:
"And let's face it, the statistics are in the fanboi's favour: iPhone users are famously more generous with their sexual favours. A survey proved it."
This was somewhat disputed by a recent El Reg article entitled "Android users more likely to put out" (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/02/android_owners/) - perhaps Anna should have compared notes with her colleague who wrote that piece... oh wait, it was Anna.
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Tuesday 14th February 2012 12:30 GMT Sceptic Tank
Compare Apples with Apples
Last time Eve handled the Apples things didn't turn out so good. But that's beside the point.
What I wanted to ask: Does the size of your equipment count on this dating site? I mean, what if you meet and her's is bigger than yours? How will you ever become an AppleInsider if she doesn't respect you?
Are the guys on that interested in girls generally?
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Tuesday 14th February 2012 19:40 GMT Putonghua73
Paid vs free
I used to hold the view that:
1. more genuine profiles on paid sites
2. better quality profiles
3. better service
After spending many years online dating (in-between long/medium term relationships), I took a hiatus last year and have recently dipped my toes in. I decided to test my assumptions. I used Dating Direct and Match as my test pay sites and ran the following filters on them:
1. Age: 30-44
2. Location: within 30 miles of Central London
3. Smoking: no
4. Last logged in: 1 month or less
Dating Direct: c133 profiles
Match: c233 profiles
If I ran the same filter last year I would have returned 40 pages of profiles. Now 7.
So what are the paid sites actually offering? First up, they do not indicate who is a subscriber i.e. who can receive and reply. Match used to allow non subscribers to receive emails. Not anymore. Secondly, if you want to use the site on a mobile device, you have to pay significantly extra. Seriously. Thirdly, in my experience, the number of genuine profiles has slipped dramatically.
Ok. Free sites. PoF: used for 6 weeks in 2010 before I went to China. Forums are hilarious, but full of fakes or angry, bitter people. Too much of a cess-pool IMO.
OKCupid: free, good interface, novel/annoying (take your pick) way of matching people (you can use the standard search filters), tonnes of users, and so far, am surprised by what appears to be genuine people. Admittedly, I am quite picky with my filters (Oriental) and who I would contact but seems to be better than the paid sites.
At the moment, I'm scratching my head and wondering why on earth I didn't use OKCupid sooner. That said, it's only been 4 days and the real test is replies that lead to dates.
I've decided to commit to relocating to Asia-Pacific to resolve my dating issues. Dating in London is just a massive PITA whether online / offline.
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