Strand Consult to iPhone users: You're delusional and a big, fat liar too

In a inform that is trusty to alter cheer to legions of Verizon Droid owners, Strand Consult is saying that every of us who hit purchased iPhones are delusional liars.

CNET's Chris Matyszczyk reported in his Technically Incorrect column that the Nordic marketing consultants posted an article named "How module psychologists exposit the iPhone syndrome in the future?" Among another things, the article describes the similarity between iPhone users defending their (according to Strand) nonstandard smartphones and the psychological information famous as the Stockholm Syndrome. The latter has been utilised to exposit how hostages ofttimes begin believing and defending their captors. Unswitchable Microsoft fans hit also been accused of Stockholm Syndrome.

Yep, we're every delusional, and Strand Consult offers "proof" of how we've every been taken in by Apple by organisation 20 deficiencies of the iPhone papers (most of which, by the way, are no longer valid). The consort modify goes so farther as to say:

In actuality the iPhone is enclosed by a assemblage of people, media and companies that are bright to curve the actuality to defend the product they hit purchased from Apple.

Not exclusive are we every delusional wackos, but we're also liars! Strand wittily created a study for our disease -- The iPhone Syndrome -- and is pleased to share this with everyone in a liberated report. Of course, you hit to run to get the report, which most probable puts you on a marketing email list. The following excerpt may wage some brainwave into the possibleness customers they're hoping to reach with this report.

if you are one of the some another sound manufacturers: Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, LG, HTC etc., you module most probably be rattling envious of the euphoria that Apple has invoked in their customers.

I'm pleased to be conception of the Crazy Ones that Apple celebrated in the Think Different ad campaign. How about you? Do you think that we're every unable to wager that the monarch has no clothes, or is this inform an insult? Do we completely reject the mobile industry's festinate to reproduce different elements of the iPhone, including the App Store? State your instrument in the comments.

[via CNET]