My Friday nights are often spent in a bar catching up with friends. Most of the time conversation is light and friendly but on the odd occasion an interesting debate emerges out of a passing comment. Last Friday someone started ranting about iPad users.
Since then I discovered this article published on the 'mail online'.
"Are you wealthy, sophisticated and smart but don’t care about anybody else?
The chances are you own an iPad.
A survey has revealed the typical person who has bought Apple’s latest gadget is unkind and has little empathy for others.
They have been branded the ‘selfish elite’ by a poll of 20,000 consumers carried out by an American research company.
The £429 device has become the most desired gadget in Britain since its launch in May and 600,000 are expected to be sold before the end of the year.
But the next time you see someone sitting on a train smugly using theirs, take comfort from the fact they are probably not a nice person.
According to Tim Koelkebeck of MyType, which carried out the survey, iPad owners are six times more likely to be ‘wealthy, well-educated, power-hungry, over-achieving, sophisticated, unkind and non-altruistic 30-50-year-olds’.
They are self-centered workaholics with an overwhelming interest in business and finance who cherish ‘power and achievement’ and will not cross the street to help others, he added.
Mr Koelkebeck said that the high price was one reason why the iPad attracted such a specific clientele" (the mail online) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1298722/iPad-users-selfish-elite.html
Comments anyone?
Oh Simon....
ReplyDeletethere's always an exception...
ReplyDeletebut a similar argument can be fired across th bows of Mac users vs PC users...