iPad Owners Are 'Selfish Elites' 780
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.'"
Generalization time (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.
Re:Wait, a study of opinion? (Score:1, Informative)
The firm's conclusion was that non-iPad owners THINK 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.
Fixed. What a stupid study. How about you actually see what iPad owners are like, rather than ask people what their opinions of iPad owners are?
Well I don't think anybody would self-identify as a selfish elite...
Re:Oh, like my mother (Score:1, Informative)
You're the troll.
Re:Wait, a study of opinion? (Score:3, Informative)
I think you misunderstood the study. From the source [scribd.com], it appears that they assessed personality characteristics based on answers to questions in a survey, and compared to self-reported iPad ownership status.
So in fact it *is* the case that iPad owners are more selfish, less altruistic, etc., or at least that they admitted to less altrustic, less kind behaviors in the study (whether admitted behavior and self-perception is somehow influenced by the fact that you just got them to admit to being an iPad owner is a fair question).
Re:The iPad is not that bad (Score:1, Informative)
You're thinking of android. Apple, unlike Google has never exercised the ability to remove installed apps from user's phones.
Not a troll (Score:5, Informative)
Re:People with disposable income buy widgets (Score:2, Informative)
Guess it depends on your definition of "non-essential".
My clinic, which is in a large metro-area hospital, is now using iPads. We are on an EMR that offers an iPhone/iPad app. Instead of facing away from the patient to review clinical data, we can use it like we did years ago with the clip board, face to face. A few touches, a few swipes, don't have to have my back to the patient.
I think this is highly essential to progressing in the EMR space, without alienating the client.
Re:The iPad is not that bad (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Not a troll (Score:4, Informative)
A survey of 20,000 Facebook users isn't a "study". It's an opinion poll from a skewed subset of the population.
MyType.com (Score:3, Informative)
If you are wondering where MyType is coming from, look no further:
Discover your personality type. [mytype.com]
MyType Online Dating [mytype.com.au]
Help us with MyType (Facebook App) [intjforum.com]
INTJ Forum.
"Masterminds, Innovators, Villians, Virgins" The perfect geek hang-out.
Re:Generalization time (Score:4, 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 ?
Re:They are "obviousness investigators" (Score:3, Informative)
Netflix. eMail and eBooks without eyestrain. Paint programs, with reasonable touch surface.
Re:overgeneralization (Score:1, Informative)
Interesting. You defended apple when their products were absolute shit. now that they make something decent you're a rabid anti-fanboy.
I was a linux Fanboi for years. Never used windows 95, 98. Hated apple with a passion. Then they went OSX and made the mac almost acceptable. Then they released Leopard and Snow Leopard. I'm now using Macs full time, and have a windows Virtual Machine for my office crap. I'm not asking you to embrace apple's management. But their technology is better now than ever before.
Re:The iPad is not that bad (Score:3, Informative)
./, where (willful or feigned) ignorance is insightful.
Re:Not a troll (Score:3, Informative)