For iPhone users... “AT&T and the All-You-Can-Eat Dilemma”
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Everything goes well for a while and business is good. But then some very large customers with very large stomachs and appetites come to your restaurant every day. They park themselves into a booth and they start eating burritos.
I knew a few football players (in the Eugene, Oregon area) who would go into one of these all-you-can-eat restaurants, and they wouldn't even get plates..., they would stack the food right on the trays, themselves... LOL...
And they could stack it on and load it up, and go back for a couple more trays, too... :-)
Eventually, they did get kicked out of the place... ooops... :-)
I guess Karl Rove must have gotten Stockholm Syndrome, too...
NB: All right, I've got just one more quick question for you. Last time I saw you, you'd just gotten an iPhone. How's that working out for you?
ROVE: I love it. My life has changed. I have a shred of coolness. I've got my 3,500 people in my addressbook on the phone, I can sync my calendar. I keep track of my modest little stock investments. I can check the weather of my house in Washington, my house in Florida, my boy at school, my hunt-lease in south Texas. I can surf the web, I'm just–I get part of my email there.
I mean it is just shocking how much better, how much more productive I am. I no longer carry around a giant address book, if I don't have my calendar close at hand, I can quickly check it out of my– I don't have to carry, I used to carry several notecards, now it's just as easy to scribble on my little notepad, I can take photographs and forward them on immediately, it's just remarkable.
Fri, 12/11/2009 - 6:00am — Jonny Evans
iPhone users are suffering from delusion akin to Stockholm Syndrome, says Strand Consulting in a weird little slice of research released this morning by this particular team of generally anti-iPhone analysts.
The note, titled, “How will psychologists describe the iPhone syndrome in the future?” seems one of the most unusual slices of writing we’ve come across.
Here’s how it begins: “It is no secret that there has been a great deal of hype surrounding the iPhone and it is also no secret that Apple probably has the most loyal and fantastic customers in the world.”
The full research claims Apple and iPhone users are devoting huge amounts of energy “defending” the product, “despite the shortcomings and limitations of both past and present versions of the iPhone.”
They concede: “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 - a term that was 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 6 days,” the continue.
The report then puts forward a series of arguments people Strand Consulting characterise as “hardcore iPhone fanatics” have used to explain away what the analysts see as the “shortcomings” of the Apple device. We haven’t repeated it here, but it looks at things including the closed nature of the App Store, prior lack of MMS, camera quality and so forth.
Then Strand Consulting come in with an interesting accusation: “In reality the iPhone is surrounded by a multitude of people, media and companies that are happy to bend the truth to defend the product they have purchased from Apple.”
“....if you are one of the many other phone manufacturers: Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, LG, HTC etc., you will most probably be very envious of the euphoria that Apple has invoked in their customers,” they conclude.
“Strand Consulting is always open to objective criticism and we would be happy to participate in any debates regarding the conclusions in our reports," they add....we can feel it coming.