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Android Users More Honest and Humble Than iPhone Users, Study Says (www.bgr.in)
The kind of software your phone is running can tell a lot about you, apparently. According to a new study by a team of researchers at the University of Lincoln, Android smartphone users have great levels of honesty and humility, agreeableness and openness personality traits but are seen as less extroverted than Apple's iPhone users. According to a report by IANS, via BGR: The researchers believe that this could be because iPhone users thought it was more important to have a high-status phone than Android users. The team from the University of Lincoln also found that women were twice more likely to own an iPhone than an Android device. However, most of the personality stereotypes did not occur in reality as only honesty and humility was found in greater amounts within Android users, the findings showed.
Kudos for astonishingly useless research. That's what science is all about.
In a political correct world, the only thing one can brag about is to be humble.
An iPhone actually IS jewelry.
If you don't believe me, look no further than most cases for iPhones (example Amazon link to Otterbox case below). Wow, the case manufacturers make sure to put a cut-out in the case for the logo on the phone, just so that everybody around you knows that you are using a Apple product. It would be HORRIBLE for the people around you to not realize how trendy, cool, and awesome you are by the phone brand that you choose. If you have it, you have to flaunt it.
https://www.amazon.com/OtterBo...
Android users, on the other hand, just want something that gets the job done without costing too much, and don't really care if the person next to them knows what kind of phone they use. I can't seem to recall a case for an Android device that leave a cut-out for the logo.
"-1 Troll" is the apparently the same as "-1 I disagree with you."
"Yet another reason to bow before me, you iPhone-using bastards."
I have to admit that the first time I saw an Android user carefully running an antivirus on her phone before firing up her banking app, I understood how sharing stories about malware and fishy apps brings such users together as a community. Our butlers and concierges are no substitute for the fellowship of the Droid campfire.