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[Stonefalcon]

If people think online gamers are addicted to the games they play then they obviously have not seen the mob of Apple users. I have never seen such a poor addicted bunch of people in my entire life, everything revolves around Apple and the useless devices they create. I thought I was addicted to World of Warcrack, it's nothing compared to this cult that lusts over the iPhone.

My work colleague has an iPhone 4S and I have a Galaxy Nexus, we both use the same carrier. I have much better reception, easier access to apps, faster net browsing, simpler connection options, faster internals, a bigger screen, my phone didn't break when it fell off the table and I only paid half as much considering my last phone (Nexus One) lasted 2 years rather than the 1 year rotation these Apple users seem to stick with.

So tell me, what is it about the iPhone that makes it such a vastly superior product over everything else on the market because I don't see it.

Edit: And my battery lasts 3 days of use rather than 1 day.

Edited by Stonefalcon, 12 September 2012 - 03:08 PM.

[Reyge]

WE ARE ADDICTED, NOW SHUT-UP AND LET ME PLAY MY GAME!!! lol

[Lightdragon]

simple answer to that... apple advertises far more heavily and brainwashes college students into thinking their products are vastly superior to something with better hardware and features 90% of their marketing in fact is directed at college campuses

[PrimalOctopus]

actually, people can, and do get addicted to games.
many people have idiotically died due to organ failure and malnutrition by playing games without eating, sleeping or using the rest room.
so its a real thing.

as for the apple hype? yeah, i'll agree that its really overhyped.

that said, i have an iphone, why? because the three 'driods i used, one after the other, glitched on me, would reset, turn off mid call, and just generally screw up all. the. dammned. time.

so i switched to an iphone a year ago, and apart from AT&T having a couple of odd deadzones, i've been really happy with the fact my phone doesn't switch itself off for no goddammed reason.

[Lightdragon]

PrimalOctopus, on 12 September 2012 - 03:21 PM, said:

actually, people can, and do get addicted to games.
many people have idiotically died due to organ failure and malnutrition by playing games without eating, sleeping or using the rest room.
so its a real thing.

as for the apple hype? yeah, i'll agree that its really overhyped.

that said, i have an iphone, why? because the three 'driods i used, one after the other, glitched on me, would reset, turn off mid call, and just generally screw up all. the. dammned. time.

so i switched to an iphone a year ago, and apart from AT&T having a couple of odd deadzones, i've been really happy with the fact my phone doesn't switch itself off for no goddammed reason.

those were just idiotic koreans (not meaning to be racists but thats where most of hte reported deaths happened

[Dream Seaker]

show me someone who says video games aren't addicting and I'll show you someone who is delusional.

for people with things such as depression (temporary or long term), problems at work, in their love life and/or have addictive personalities, video games are potentially just as addictive as alcohol.

as for the apple craze, Lightdragon provided a very good answer. I would like to add that people enjoy having new things. the best things. they don't (usually) like to get left behind in whats popular. so combined with Lightdragon's answer, it is a very effective tool to marketing.

[Vanguard319]

I recently replaced my iPhone 3G with a Nokia Lumia 900, (a really nice smartphone that is powered by Windows phone 7) one of my reasons was because I couldn't get an apple tech to look at it when my cell signal died. If they think the antenna is broken, do I really need to arrange an appointment to have it shipped out and fixed? I also kept losing album data when using itunes.

As for the Nokia, I'm still learning how it works, but I gotta say so far it's superior, the Bing search does alot of the same things as the iphone's Sari, the weather app that can be downloaded for it is far better and more detailed than the one that comes standard on the iphone, it has an OLED screen that looks sharper than my old 3G, and the battery life is greater. As for my music, I did have to install Zune on my PC, but I was able to use it to find and restore lost album art and data on my AAC format music, something I couldn't do with itunes. (yes it plays Apple codecs and MPEG 4 as well as Windows media) Add the fact I can use it as a 4G hotspot for any mobile device, and I'm converted.

Edited by Vanguard319, 12 September 2012 - 06:36 PM.

[Asura]

Apple and addiction, I've never thought about it that way.

Lightdragon, on 12 September 2012 - 03:14 PM, said:

simple answer to that... apple advertises far more heavily and brainwashes college students into thinking their products are vastly superior to something with better hardware and features 90% of their marketing in fact is directed at college campuses

How do they Brainwash students? At our University the only ones who actually use apple products are from an institute no one actually takes serious. In fact it's more like anti-advertisement cause no one gets **** done there. xD
But seriously, I've never seen anyone who has to regularly work with their equipment having an iProduct, regardless of apple products being good or bad.

[Palerider777]

Firstly there's two types of addiction. Chemical addiction like for instance *******. Then theres psychological addiction such as bubble wrap or card games. Secondly as you know video gaming would fall in the second category. However video gaming itself is not addicting, rather people become obsessed with it. Basically video gaming is an addiction in the way that any placebo can be an addiction. If we are going to call video games in of themselves addicting, then we are going to need to call everything addicting. Scrubbing the floor ( there's people addicted to that), or owning keys, that's another one. Just because one person can be psychologically addicted does not mean everyone can it has far more to do with the person then the item they are obsessed with.


The censored part is known chemical narcotic so just use your imagination most people know of at least 6 or 7.

Edited by Palerider777, 13 September 2012 - 02:34 PM.

[Egomane]

PrimalOctopus, on 12 September 2012 - 03:21 PM, said:

that said, i have an iphone, why? because the three 'driods i used, one after the other, glitched on me, would reset, turn off mid call, and just generally screw up all. the. dammned. time.

I have a close friend that reports the same behaviour from his iphone you described from your 'roids. In fact I wittnessed a spontanous shutdown of the phone once, when I made a call from it, firsthand. He wouldn't exchange it for any other phone, instead he got a new iphone and the problems were gone. Maybe you just had some bad luck and repeatedly got monday-products.

For me it doesn't matter, as I don't believe in the usefullness of mobile phones. Smartphones only add to our online gaming addiction.

(Last sentence was added to stay on topic )

[Lightdragon]

Asura, on 13 September 2012 - 02:18 PM, said:

Apple and addiction, I've never thought about it that way.



How do they Brainwash students? At our University the only ones who actually use apple products are from an institute no one actually takes serious. In fact it's more like anti-advertisement cause no one gets **** done there. xD
But seriously, I've never seen anyone who has to regularly work with their equipment having an iProduct, regardless of apple products being good or bad.

having stupid ads like "i have to have long study sessions in a library without outlets and the macbook whatever gets 7 hours of battery life to a pc's 3 or 4" and then you research closer and find that the 7 hours was due to operating in power save mode while the pc was using average settings or another example all the absolutely stupid iphone commercials with lonely people talking to the ceri (sp?) app, heavy advertising combined with ******** students wanting to use products that are expensively marked up just because of a little apple logo and not to mention more cheaply built hardware and chasis wise (phones screens usually break first tiem you drop em even with a protective case) because they percieve them to be the trendy product

[Dymitry]

Fashion and iSheeps. People percieve apple as cool BEFORE doing technical considerations.
In fact, apple's target market is the technically ignorant that likes to feel trendy.
Case in point the other day I was on a 2 hour train trip. See what market share macbooks have on the total laptop market.
Out of 5 laptop users users that I could see, 4 of them, casually all young and very hipster looking, they had 4 macbooks. The only business guy there had a lenovo, and he was doing work.
How do I know that the others weren't? Well, the fact that they were wearing their cool dr dre/bose headphones and not doing anything.

Another case in point? We develop iphone app, so I had to endure the douchetastic iphone 5 conference. I will skip all the bullsh*it that every half brained savy consumer can spot. What I could not stand was the PEOPLE THAT WHERE ******* CLAPPING EVEN WHEN THEY ANNOUNCED THE NEW CONNECTOR AND THE ARRAY OF NEW OVERPRICED ADAPTERS THAT YOU WILL HAVE TO BUY AND CARRY TO USE that expensive B&W Zeppelin and all the other bullcrap with proprietary apple connectors. Everyone is going towards a unified connection, and open standards, and they have to do "Lightning", oh but it sounds so cool.

And then you wonder how a car salesman could create a religion. There you go.

Think different my ***.

Edited by Dymitry, 14 September 2012 - 07:16 AM.

[Alaric Wolf Kerensky]

My favorite ones are those who claim "Macs cannot get viruses!"

... And then they get a virus.

[Dymitry]

Its not a virus, according to the genius manual it is a condition/issue/situation.

[BlackSquirrel]

Pretty sure anyone can grow an unhealthy obsession with anything.

[Maxwell Albritten]

Ah, come on guys, give apple some credit. A lot of their devices are pretty slick and do a lot of things for computer illiterate folks. I wouldn't dream of using a mac or iphone, but I still haven't found a basic MP3 player that i like more than the nano.

People get excited over all sorts of things. Who the eff knows why, but we as a species do. How many of you have spent $60+ bucks on a game that hasn't even come out yet just because you HOPE it'll be good? (Do you see what I did there?)

Chill out, let people get excited over whatever, and just be cool bro.

[Lightdragon]

I love when mac users get viruses they ship off their expensive toy for hundreds and have to wait a month minimum before they see it again

[Ducks Guts]

Heh. All "smart" phones are dumb. Problem is we need em. They all glich at some point. Damn sun. Keep your solar flatulents to yourself. Thanks.

[Egomane]

Ducks Guts, on 16 September 2012 - 07:49 PM, said:

Problem is we need em.

Do we need them, or do we want to need them?

[Thee Tactician]

Greetings all

I like to consider myself passionate not addicted as I can pull away from the computer to eat, drink, bio and work. Also spend time with the wife and still fit in a good 10 hour or more a day of gaming if I desire too. Okay so maybe its rare when its only 10 hours and not 16 but still, I refuse to consider myself addicted as it implies that I cannot stop and that is simply not true. I just have no desire to stop plane and simple.
After all consider this someone that is passionate about classical music could be reading, learning and listening to it 16 hours or perfecting there knowledge in it. So what is the difference between addicted and passionate?