Ever wonder why iPhone users often seem to have the same personality, or why you could never understand an Android fan?
UK researchers finally developed a test that could predict what kind of cellphone a user is likely to have, and here are the conclusions:
A comparison of both Android and iPhone users revealed that iPhone users are more likely to be:
Younger
More than twice as likely to be women
More likely to see their phone as a status object
More extraverted
Less concerned about owning devices favoured by most peopleIn contrast, Android users were more likely to be:
Male
Older
More honest
More agreeable
Less likely to break rules for personal gain
Less interested in wealth and status
The full article is paywalled but an abstract is avilable.
Now if only there was a way to separate correlation and causation...
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161121144206.htm
(Score: 5, Insightful) by goody on Thursday November 24 2016, @02:02PM
I'm not sure where they get these people for these studies, but I'm a somewhat introverted middle-aged successful business professional male, and pretty much everyone in the business I'm in has an iPhone. Android users are outliers, usually "younguns" who like to tweak and play with every last thing on their phone to pimp out the OS, or they despise Apple. The people with iPhones just want something that works with a consistent user interface, reliable hardware, and safe apps. Even traveling on airplanes, I see maybe one Android phone for every ten iPhones, and the iPhone users don't all have the same personality nor are they young females who want a blingy accessory.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 24 2016, @02:06PM
Perhaps from a more robust sample than "my personal environment". Contrary to how it may seem, the world does not in fact revolve around you.
(Score: 5, Funny) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday November 24 2016, @02:21PM
> Contrary to how it may seem, the world does not in fact revolve around you.
What do you expect from an iphone user?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 24 2016, @03:12PM
"introverted" and "successful business professional" do not compute. Successful business professionals have to be social a-holes to succeed. Sorry, but that's a fact. So I guess TFA is correct.
I'm proud to be an Android user, wouldn't use an iphone even if it was free.
(Score: 2) by goody on Thursday November 24 2016, @03:52PM
To be successful you need to know your shortcomings and limitations and you compensate for them. That's how it works. Glad you're proud of your phone. My phone choice isn't really a priority in my life. It's just another tool to use to get things done.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday November 24 2016, @03:58PM
Yeah really, if even that. I don't even use the vast majority of features on my old Android phone, it's basically a glorified camera with the ability to send and receive texts and fuck off on the internet if I get bored.
If I gotta use any navigation features, for example, I have to fumble around embarassingly like a virgin trying to find the right hole in the dark. I'm strongly considering reverting to a dumbphone with a camera.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 24 2016, @04:15PM
My Android smartphone is used for... Phone Calls and text messages. All the other crap is removed or disabled. The battery lasts a week. If I need a GPS, I have a Garmin GPS. Photos, 35mm DSLR. Web, Desktop Linux PC. Games, Windows gaming rig or PS4.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 24 2016, @07:12PM
Proud? Why? Sure, Android phones have less proprietary software on them and aren't usually as locked-down, but they still have all sorts of proprietary blobs and do not give the user full control over them. What is there to be proud of? Wake me up when an Android phone gets a Respects Your Freedom certification from the FSF.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 24 2016, @08:19PM
Because in Coach I can tell you even 5+ years ago it was mostly android, not iPhones.
That said everybody I know with an iPhone does qualify as an extrovert and most do demand it as a status symbol even when they are barely affording their rent.
I guess the US and China have a lot in common... only the chinese are smart enough to buy or retrofit an iPhone knockoff if they don't have money for a real one.
(Score: 1) by Linatux on Thursday November 24 2016, @10:13PM
That you actually see someones phone says a lot. Mine lives in my pocket unless I'm actually using it.
(Score: 1) by i286NiNJA on Saturday November 26 2016, @04:24PM
I'm not sure where they get these people for these studies, but I'm a somewhat introverted middle-aged successful business professional male, and pretty much everyone in the business I'm in has an iPhone.
I see maybe one Android phone for every ten iPhones,
You're surrounded by people who have money and don't care about their phone that much "this one is supposed to be one of the best right?... hmm ok"
I'm not sure what planes you're flying though. Maybe in first class.
(Score: 2) by goody on Sunday November 27 2016, @04:29AM
Coach. I occasionally get first class upgrades. I guess maybe I need to visit some third world countries where cheap Android phones presumably dominate the market.
(Score: 1) by i286NiNJA on Monday November 28 2016, @03:45PM
Not really sure I go lots of places, in places I've been with a very small middle class 100% of the wealthy seem to have iPhones, old beat up androids are very popular but as everywhere the poor will go to great lengths to possess a status symbol of wealth so some of them have iPhones. There is a dude in china who sold a kidney so he could get an iPod, now 10 years later he looks like an old man. Dude Chinese people are nuts for Apple products.
I just checked some useragent logs and saw android 2x as much as ios..