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iPad Owners Are 'Selfish Elites'
An anonymous reader writes "It's not exactly official, but should also surprise no one: According to a new study the psychological profile of iPad owners can be summed up as 'selfish elites' while have-not critics are 'independent geeks.' Consumer research firm MyType conducted the study, in which opinions of 20,000 people were analyzed between March and May. The firm's conclusion was that iPad owners tend to be wealthy, sophisticated, highly educated and disproportionately interested in business and finance, while they scored terribly in the areas of altruism and kindness. In other words, 'selfish elites.'"
What's an iPad?
A bit over-dramatic?
The only thing locking you into Apple products is not wanting to use something else... at any time you are free to put down an iPod and pick up the alternative of your choice.
The "problem" is that the warden will let you purchase any number of nifty furnishings at fairly reasonable prices, but won't let you take them outside. You can stay in your self-imposed prison with your shiny things, or you can walk through the front door to freedom without them. I guess that would make it less of a prison, and more of a voluntary admission mental institution.
Full disclosure: I don't like Apple, I don't like Apple's products, I don't normally defend either, I am not an apologist or shill or fanboi.
Try not to take me more seriously than I take myself.
But any study that comes off this way must be seriously flawed and is in no way scientific
"Comes off"? That's inference, not implication! It's all about you.
First we have the problem of defining what a "selfish elite" is. Call me when the whole world agrees.
The words "selfish" and "elite" both have dictionary definitions you are welcome to look up. They are asserting that iToy owners are selfish and elite.
This is nothing but a smear campaign.
And you know this because you have read the study's methodology?
Oh wait, the article says that this "data" was obtained by a "Consumer Research" firm, not the American Psychological Association, or some scientist.
Data is plural, it's "these data". Consumer Reports is a "Consumer Research" firm, and is very highly regarded. The APA has repeatedly pushed antisocial agendas for their own gain. And who the fuck is "some scientist"? I suppose you think they had the janitor work up the report. You're a scientist if you're doing science.
If we follow the money, I wonder who hired this company...
No, no you don't. You wonder how you can discredit this report without actually examining its veracity, and you are a hypocrite for using bullshit, leading statements and logical fallacies (repeated illogical appeals to authority, anyone?) when you have absolutely nothing backing you up.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Oh yeah this is totally flamebait you Slashwhore cockfucks. I visit this website every day, have mod points pretty much everyday (I would have just modded this up if I hadn't already posted) and yet I hate this fucking site so much because of these types of articles and the immature "fuck society and everything accepted by it crew". They run around saying why Natalie Holloway deserved to die ("she was a white girl lol") and why Apple products are stupid ("only idiots and people with money use them").
I've converted 2 hardcore haters into buyers, and a bunch of "mehs" into "hey, can I borrow your iPad for a bit, I want to show someone this..."
Congratulations, you have proven that people want to buy Tablet computers.
I don't know if the hate comes from the giant price tag, or the closed platform, but once you actually use it, instead of looking at it from a theoretical standpoint, it's incredibly useful.
For a little less money you can buy an Asus tablet with a keyboard. It doesn't have the same battery life but it's about the same size and weight. So from my standpoint, the iPad is an incredible ripoff, especially if you have to live in the walled garden looking up at the ivory tower disappearing up the arsehole of his holiness The Jobs. I could handle worshipping Woz, but Jobs? I'd rather worship Jehovah.
So sure, maybe us iPad owners have a little more money, but when the base model costs over $600 (stupid taxes) you aren't going to find many minimum wage earners that can afford to play yet ...
Congratulations, not only are you an elite, but you're also arrogant.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Ordinary Americans have allowed themselves to become loathsome.
Acutally, American people haven't changed. They're the same as ever. It's the vicious hatred like yours that has revealed itself in public in the last 10 years.
It's natural to despise such people.
Yeah, they used to say the same things about the Cherokee, the Negroes, the Tibetans, etc etc. But I'm sure the hate is OK in your case.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
The way I see it the iPad/Phone/Apple in general is like a very large, beautiful prison cell.
Is it really a cell when anyone who cares to go outside can leave at any time?
Lots of people basically lock themselves into home and work and never travel. This is no less a cell, yet it's what they prefer to do. Are they so wrong to want a simpler isolated life if they are happy living it?
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I'm curious. What are those things that you coudn't do before?
My wife cannot travel with a laptop. It's too bulky and heavy for her. She also sees no need for a smartphone and the expense of it, she has a dirt cheap pay as you go phone.
Recently she went via airplane to visit family. I sent her out with an iPad, mostly to entertain her during the flights.
Well it turned out that American Airlines had other plans for her that did not including reaching her destination. So through the iPad she was able to easily look up alternative flights while waiting in line for agents. Later that night her phone ran dead (because she had not brought the charger thinking she would not be on the phone for hours) and she was able to download Skype onto the iPad and call me using that to explain where she ended up.
Basically it gave someone without a laptop all the power a laptop could offer... although a netbook might have worked for that the battery I don't think would have lasted the many hours she was using it, and of course it would be pretty awkward to use a netbook standing in line.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
When someone important to you, including yourself, becomes deathly sick or injured, who are you going to choose between a mediocre doctor and an elite doctor?
By saying that the "elite" are selfish and greedy, one ignores the fact that the "elite" are those that are the best at what they do and arbitrarily assigns a values that generally may not be true. It is pandering to the lowest common denominator.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
I'm somewhat amused by the article - clearly those folks are trying to cash in on the Ipad's popularity to sell their news nonsense. It's likely to backfire on them; calling the 3 million plus Ipad owners snobbish or elite is neither the truth nor a good idea - they're just insulting a large number of their potential readers.
I've got one; I've had it for a few months now and it's very, very useful. For many of the things that I would have previously needed to boot up a computer and wait for Windows to load - now I can just click the button, tap on an icon, and be looking at the information I wanted.
This reminds me of the days when the idea of a "personal computer" was new. I owned one and everyone wanted to know what it was good for. Years later, nearly everyone knows what they're good for and uses one daily. Now it's the Ipad's turn for those "what's it good for?" questions. As with the PC, what it's good for depends on what you want it to do - and like the PC, it will enable a new realm of applications and functions that can't be clearly described in these early days.
We've had the long string of "it's a flop, nobody needs this" stories and now that over 3.5 million of them have sold they can't keep beating that drum. So now let's insult the people that own them - that'll do that "news" source a lot of "good". Those who think the Ipad should be a miniature PC are still wrong - but those who take it as it is soon discover that there's another world that they didn't expect.