"to judge the iphone on its mass market appeal" Note that you can make a lot of money out of a product that flops in the mass market like an iphone. Out of an

"to judge the iphone on its mass market appeal" Note that you can make a lot of money out of a product that flops in the mass market like an iphone. Out of any group of ten Americans, roughly ten drink water, use indoor plumbing, and have access to utility generated electricity, all rather successful products. Its also true that nine out of ten Americans don't have or use an iphone, however, its possible to make an enormous stack of money out of stuff 90% of the population is uninterested in. For other examples of the same phenomena of making fat stacks of cash off practically no one, see pop music, television, professional sports, AAA video games... Its a failure to understand the market. Around 9 out of 10 comments about an iphone should be somewhere on the spectrum of "eh" to "that sucks" because a random sampling should indicate iphones are only about twice as cool as Congress. People on /. complained about the ipod because they're normies, not because they're nerds. Normies don't like that stuff, look at the actual sales figures, therefore normie hangout like /. is not going to like the product. Denigration and name calling of people who don't like a niche product is just Apple fanboyism.