“The consultants’ likening of iPhone buyers to kidnapped hostages may raise more than the eyebrows of many an Apple fanboy (fanperson?),” Matyszczyk reports. “‘When we examine the iPhone users’ arguments defending the iPhone, it reminds us of the famous Stockholm Syndrome–a term invented by psychologists after a hostage drama in Stockholm. Here, hostages reacted to the psychological pressure they were experiencing by defending the people that had held them hostage for six days,’ Strand declared.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: John Strand is batshit insane and/or on the take, but at least he reads MacDailyNews.
Another batch of Dvorak larvae, trolling for attention.
Lets just keep it simple: He is an asswipe.
Strand forgot to mention a very important scientific statistic… it appear that all the people who don’t own an iPhone also happen to have a very small weeny…
Since John Strand reads MDN, let him read this:
You are obviously much too dull-witted to recognize a groundbreaking mobile device when you see one, even when somebody sticks it right in your face. What’s even worse, you’re proud of your stupidity! Lots o’ luck, monkey boy.
Since John Strand reads MDN, let him read this:
What you’re seeing is simply what happens when a manufacturer is SUCCESSFUL at achieving –> Product Differentiation <–
As any *undergraduate* business student knows, without Product Differentiation, a business is limited to competing in the _commodity_ based marketplace, which has narrow-to-zero profit margins.
But does this mean that there’s a ‘Stockholm Syndrome’? Since these iPhone customers could simply pay a termination fee and walk away, they’re hardly hostages: their “Barrier To Exit” is far lower than a lot of other products today.
Where the Stockholm Syndrome really is egregious today is with how tall the barriers are for a Business to try to find an escape from how their Enterprise IT is held hostage by MS-Office and Windows for their Enterprise.
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Oh yes, and I am a pecan!
This guy is an idiot at the very least for his misuse of the term Stocholm Syndrome. It only applies in situations where one entity puts the other into some sort of victimization situation, like being a hostage. Clearly that’s not what’s happening here.
Stop talking ill about The Precious….yes, the iPhone is My Precious, you can’t have it, no, you can’t.
This also is testimony to the quality of cnet news… some asshat “consultant” empties his bowels and this is then considered news?
Now u know why I never go to cnet
@iPhoneEnvy
Ur the one using an iPhone ERGO Ur a MORON
the best shot U iTards have is to start saying Im on another Carrier and have envy of the GayPhone
well shitforbrains…. Im European = 3½ years ahead of your mobile experience….
Ever wondered why the GayPhone didn’t get success outside AT&T;?