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iPad Owners Are 'Selfish Elites'

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the sounds-about-right dept.

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.'"

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  1. Generalization time by Pojut · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nearly every Apple *fan* that I've met has been a pretentious prick. Now now, I don't mean if you use Apple products you are automatically a prick...but Apple fanboys(girls) are rabid on a level that is just plain scary.

    For the record, I personally think Apple makes decent products, they just aren't for me.

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    1. Re:Generalization time by silentcoder · · Score: 3, Informative

      >The documentary Macheads [imdb.com] sums this up pretty well. There was a hipster in that doc that refused to date men who owned a PC

      She didn't say "date" however, she said SLEEP with. Sorry, using a PC even rules you out as a one-night-stand.

      That hipster was Violet Blue - sex columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and one of the more famous of the 3rd-generation sex-positive feminists. Also the author of "The smart girls guide to porn" - her blog is tinynibbles.com (blog contains sex ed, opinion pieces and porn reviews - NSFW - you have been warned) yeah I hate apple but I'm a big fan of her work.

      Actually despite her love for Apple products - her nature and job has made her quite a vocal critic of Steve Jobs's anti-porn crusade. ...come to think of it... I wonder how she feels about Linux users... maybe a gray area... the kind where alcohol can tip the scales... I can but dream...

      Oh come now - seriously - a pornloving, sexuality expert from San Francisco... can you IMAGINE the tricks she would know ?

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  2. Not a troll by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Informative

    This isn't some Mac-basher's blog post, it's an article in Wired that cites a real study. And it's relevant to techies (Wired certainly thought so too).

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    1. Re:Not a troll by gstoddart · · Score: 3, Informative

      This isn't some Mac-basher's blog post, it's an article in Wired that cites a real study.

      A survey of 20,000 Facebook users isn't a "study". It's an opinion poll from a skewed subset of the population.

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