iPad users "stop noticing other people altogether," according to the Borowitz Report
Source: Borowitz Report
In a parody of a medical news report datelined Cupertino, humorist (and, we suspect, iPad owner) Andy Borowitz pokes fun at owners of Apple's (AAPL) hot-selling tablet computer.
"A new scientific study released today," he writes, "says that iPad owners are less likely to commit adultery 'because they stop noticing other people altogether.'
"The study also indicated that iPad owners are far less likely to have sex with the people they are married to, but that in two-iPad couples 'neither partner seems to care.' "
You can read the full report here.
BlackBerry not so many, and Android even fewer, according to an online dating service
Click to enlarge. Source: OKTrends
File this under a phenomenon desperately seeking an explanation.
According to data collected by the online dating service OKCupid, people who carry Apple (AAPL) iPhones have more sex partners by age 30 than owners of Research in Motion (RIMM) BlackBerries or Google (GOOG) Android phones.
Women with iPhones had the most partners of all MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 11, 2010 6:57 AM ET
Cleaning up the App Store in advance of the iPad's release
Source: AppShopper.com
After four days of confusion and adolescent hand-wringing, Apple (AAPL) finally spoke out about the change of policy that has removed thousands of risqué applications from its iPhone App Store.
The response came in an interview that senior vice president Phil Schiller gave Jenna Wortham of the New York Times.
Over the last few weeks, he told Wortham, a small MORE
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