Study: iPad owners are selfish elitists, non-owners are independent geeks

I have an iPad and I can confirm this. lol

sounds like a shoddy study: define wealthy, define altruism.

my ipad costs 2x the price of my Xbox 360. am i not wealthy if i don't have an ipad but i have 2 Xbox 360s (or do I just really, really want to play Halo - Reach in Sept)?

also, i'm not a geek if i own an ipad? as a card carrying charter member of the geek-nerd creed who lives and breathes UNIX (not linux, but real UNIX; that i know the difference should be sufficient proof of my geekness) i really resent that..

i'm not altruistic because i own an ipad? my volunteer work during katrina is negated by my appreciation of superior consumer electronics?

this study sounds like it was designed by some balding, ex-high school jocks who really believe "hacker" is a derogatory adjective.

sophisticated? Me? I drink instant coffee and eat 3.99 cheap pizza night on monday.

The bar for sophistication must be pretty low now... hehe

I own a nice computer. I have a cell phone that does everything I want it to do. And I have a Kindle 1 plus memory cards that hold every book I've purchased since the first offering of Kindle. I can download a new book in 40 seconds from a plane anywhere in the country and internationally if I choose to pay a bit extra. I won't be buying the Ipad.

Yeah? And Wintel users are exactly like their hero, demi-god Bill Gates with a tiny, limp white dick needing to chug down Viagra by the bottle a day! Don't forget to add Rush Limpball to the list!

What a crock of BS that "study" is. My family have ipads and we certainly are not elitists by any stretch of the imagination - working stiffs. And we are not selfish, either - we are always there to help others in need, and tithe 10% regardless of the economy. This study is like so many others - put together by moronic collegiate types that are educated beyond their capacity to comprehend, and they use bogus standards and benchmarks in order to make the point they intended to make all along. As long as some foundation or the government pays them big bucks to do a study, that's what it's all about.

And we needed a study to show people who buy apple products are eletists jerk off except they usually are not very smart. The smart people tend not to buy apple and enjoy having a personality and not just Steve Jobs whipping boys.I mean you have to have some money though to buy a cell phone that doesn't make calls for $500 lol also have to be stupid.

I am really so sick and tired of the poor of the earth, the majority are envious of the smart and intelligent, because they are mediocre. If they can't make money they envy the house, the car, good parents who take care of their children, because the poor can't. They reproduce themselves like rats, sell their children or abandon them to the streets to sell candies and produce money for the parents, they take their children away from school and they are at fault for their lack of education and self steem. I have been poor all my life, my sisters in law always made more money than my husband and I, my children were poor and they did not know, why? because we had the best of ourselfs in made our children to compite and study and have their degrees. I never allowed they call themselves minorities, I always toll them, you have a mind used it and sky is the limit. But the parents who want goverment to make the job that belongs to them, because they are lazy, drug addits, sex addicts, they are the scum of the Earth. Jesus Christ said "The poors will be always with you, but me only for a short time". So Poors do not depend so much on the Catholic Church and other churches and goverment, do your duty, work hard and be good parents, it is better to eat only bread and broth, but be together and don't throw your children away from home, give them self steem, and stimulate their minds, to be good people, and do not be so envious of the rich, if it wasnt' for them nobody would have a job then everyone have to live in a tree. Sorry Jesus but you said that faster pass a cammel from a needle eye than the rich, Now I said, faster pass the rich to heaven than the poor......

I-pad owners and nonowners cannot be figured out by using an approach of parapsychology on a basis of what a few thousand answered in a random study, Some of those who write these articles should ponder more about whither a bear craps in the woods facing east is always a brown bear and ones that carp always on journalists happen to be kodiaks.

I don't fit the profile, I have an I-Pad with Wi-Fi, I'm really old, retired, uneducated, high school only, and I do give to my favorite causes. So far I've downloaded my favorite music, pictures, 4 books, 2 audibooks, and several apps. and a couple of movies. I think this is my new favorite toy!!