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.'"

Comments

sophisticated?

[tomhudson]

How can they be described as sophisticated if they fall for the marketing hype?

Let's see - make an iPhone twice the size that can't make phone calls ... yep, sure sounds sophisticated to me.

Re:Troll article.

[Duradin]

It's an Apple article posted by Taco, when is it not going to be trolling?

heh ...

[Lazy Jones]

Ask anyone (esp. poor people) whether they think they're kinder, more generous than rich people. Then ask them how much they donated to charity in the last year, even as a percentage of their disposable income...

As a selfish elite iPad owner

[RabidMonkey]

I sure spend a lot of my time altruistically handing my iPad over to every nay-sayer who says that the "iPad sucks/why would you want one/why don't you get a netbook", and have been pretty amazed at the change of heart when they start using it.

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..."

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.

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 ...

Re:The iPad is not that bad

[insertwackynamehere]

Well at least someone modded him up lol

Re:They are "obviousness investigators"

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

I grew up on the dole.

Re:Selfish Submission?

[DaveV1.0]

Really? Do you always know what is best for you in everything? Even the things you know little or nothing about?
What you call "submission" is actually putting one's trust in someone else.

In other news

[4D6963]

And according to another study, Blackberry owners are 'big stoopid doo doo heads', while the same study finds that Android users are smooth, cool and 230% more likely to have sex with more than one partner a week.