iPhone owners suffering from Stockholm syndrome… [yawn]
Are you a marketing firm looking to stir the pot, generate some quick and easy publicity to drum up sales for your services? Then why not try and make the connection between iPhone users and something outrageous, like Stockholm syndrome? That’s exactly what one company has done—stand back you don’t want to get any of this on your clothes.
Strand Reports, whose stated purpose is “to help our clients move more merchandise in less time, at reduced cost,” has published a press release with a title, How will psychologists describe the iPhone syndrome in the future?, which is a come on for their report, The moment of truth, a portrait of the iPhone.
Simply put, Apple has launched a beautiful phone with a fantastic user interface that has had a number of technological shortcomings that many iPhone users have accepted and defended, despite those shortcomings resulting in limitations in iPhone users’ daily lives … When we examine the iPhone users’ arguments defending the iPhone, it reminds us of the famous Stockholm Syndrome…
Strand then goes on to list a series of purported iPhone shortcomings matched with the feeble excuses iPhone owners use to dismiss these ‘limitations in their daily lives.’ These people are called “fanatics,” and are said to love and worship the iPhone.
We’ve seen this movie before.
Probing analysis, shocking revelations!
Seriously though I had this dream the other night where I was talking on my iPhone to my mother while riding a train through a tunnel. Everyone on the train (except me) was a hyper butch pink poodle carrying a MacBook with a huge black wi-fi extender antenna repeatedly trying to mount the low-power USB port…
What does it all mean?!?
via News.com
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December 13th, 2009
Stockholm Syndrome?
That’s why people stick with Windows.
December 13th, 2009
“There is no accounting for taste,” as Cicero said two millennia ago.
You’ve been there; your best friend gets romantically interested is someone who you must wonder, “What does she/he see in them?”
It is disastrous to ask that question or to imply that they are nuts. Are you trying to drive people off?
The point is that the iPhone users are not seeing these matters according to your criteria. They may have different priorities which makes them discount the flaws which are so huge to you. Or you could be jealous that they have found anther interest.
LOL. Of course, this analysis is just as absurd as yours. Keep up the trash talk, boy. Maybe someone will pay attention to YOU.
December 13th, 2009
Bought and paid for MS propoganda from Ballmer.
Apple took .6% of worldwide marketshare from Ballmer, personally.
He’s sore as hell about that. And, he wants it ALL back. Right now.
December 14th, 2009
I’ve been saying it for years. It has nothing to do with Ballmer. Microsoft isn’t a hardware company. Apple doesn’t pose much of a risk to Microsoft, and won’t unless it comes out with a competitive Server line.
No Netbook is a Benefit for Apple
Having All-in-One iMacs keep the MacPros competitive.
It was funny watching iPhone users justify no 3G as a benefit because the battery wasn’t swappable.
Or that voice dialing and SMS weren’t needed in a multimedia device.
But the best one is the absolute predictable lemming knee jerk MacDailyNews-ish comments with foaming Microsoft Derangement Syndrome. I’m missing all the Windows Ads referencing OSX. Yet all the Mac ads spend 100% of the time pounding on MS.