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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.'"
anon = troll?
capthcha = unseen
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.
No it's really about slashvertisements. This is simply another one that is disguised better than others.
It's an Apple article posted by Taco, when is it not going to be trolling?
This is just a whole new level of shoddy posts.Why isn't this crap in idle? Ironically enough, the captcha word was 'disgusts' when I first went to post this.
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...
"I love my job, but I hate talking to people like you" (Freddie Mercury)
I hate apple. I hate almost everything they put out. I hated the iPad. I still hate unrooted iPads. They are pieces of crap for concept.
They do have a beautiful screen. They are the perfect size. Rooted, with a terminal, iSSH, and logmein, they are an awesome sysadmin tool. (I can even use usb to serial cable with it) I rarely need my laptop anymore.
I have no degree.
I own no stocks.
I havent looked at a financial website in years.
I hate apple.
I love my rooted, hacked up, customized iPad.
I do extensive charity work. I give alot. Last year I did 80 photo sessions for multiple photography related charities. I have worked in food banks, I help people when ever I can.
I'm the typical good hearted, egotistical asshole bofh that people who work with me hate, and those that don't know me personally love since I'll do all I can to help them.
I do believe alot of the story. Typical Apple fanboy hippies who claim to be environmentalists, or just dumbass crunchy bloggers, are a bunch of self righteous idiots.
Well said, couchslug. Well said.
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 ...
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us. - Douglas Coupland
Because he's black. He's NOT allowed to.
and lets not forget that they voted the democrats into power. Thats reason to hate anyone.
Because he's too busy making sure that every working man and woman contributes a hefty share of their hard-earned money to buy iPads for all of his mooching lifelong-welfare-using brethren.
This site has ads?
Well at least someone modded him up lol
I grew up on the dole.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
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.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
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.
You just got troll'd!