iPhone users richer, brainier, more tasteful than Android-ers

iDiot's guide?

It could also be said that it means that Android users are normal people.

Also...

Don't forget our ability to walk on water, and turn it into wine!

Incorrect correction...

Did any iPhones actually get looted? I thought all the looters were happy with their Blackberrys ... it sounds like Burberry init blood!

Don't follow the crowd?

isn't that mainly due to the fact that "the crowd" in this case being the android operating system is hopelessly fragmented because every manufacturer tries to impliment it's own flavour and there doesnt seem to be a coherent upgrade path from phone to phone?

Crowd?

Really, as every Android adept likes to point out, Android now occupies the majority of the market. Therefore, you are by definition following the crowd.

What a f**king crock!

No, irrespective of brand it merely tells me that anyone who puts that much stock in an electronic gadget that communicates, plays music and games really needs to get a fecking life!

It's just a phone, OK? It's not a fecking lifestyle choice! Should I ever wish to get a "smartphone", I hope I will be able to do it based on the technical merits, not on some fake, bullshit group affiliation cack that a group of ad-men think I should ally myself with!

Generalisations

Anyone who relies on their consumer object purchases to define and identify themselves are sad idiots who lack any personality of their own.

If you use an Android/iPhone and believe that you can categorize yourself by shared positive attributes you have with other Android/iPhone users then you are a sad idiot.

If you believe you can negatively generalise about all users of your non-preferred operating system then you are a sad idiot.

"Sad idiot" is, of course, a generalisation, but I find the things people say and believe are a far, far better indicator of the person than the make of mobile phone they own.

Titleist

Last I checked, Android WAS the crowd. Can't have your cake and eat it too. Android has higher market share now, more activations per day, etc. Android has become the establishment.

Hey, watch what u say, my Android wasn't cheaper ;-)

I'm really glad they figured out that Lemmings are natural leaders!

I had mistakenly thought they were hell-bent on following into the next hype, dictatorship or down the next cliff...

The Dunning–Kruger effect

I had never heard of that, so I looked it up.

QUOTE:

Kruger and Dunning proposed that, for a given skill, incompetent people will:

tend to overestimate their own level of skill;

fail to recognize genuine skill in others;

fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy;

recognize and acknowledge their own previous lack of skill, if they can be trained to substantially improve.

END QUOTE.

That describes my boss pretty well actually......

If you've never been to the US

... your "phone" runs semaphore!

Okay, I apologize, that's cheap and wrong and perpetuates a stereotype of us USians, but dagnabbit, mockery and stereotype bashing is fun! Why should politicians and journalists have all the fun?