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The iPhone May Be, Quite Literally, The Gayest Phone Ever

It’s no secret that since Apple has long been the pick of designers and that Apples computing demographic has leaned more to the Gay side. Building on that Gawker has done some researching and found that the iPhone may, in fact, be the gayest phone ever.

You know what’s yet one more great thing about the gay people? Their consumer consciousness! They’re early adopters, they’re curious consumers—and they buy a HECK of a lot of phones. [...] And here’s another fun anecdotal fact. Nearly half of the iPhone buyers we know are of the gay persuasion.

How do you think that stacks up, in an informal poll I conducted, the anecdotal evidence seems to be true.

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UPDATE: Wow, didn’t expect that kind of response. This post was intended to point out a simple fact about iPhone owners. It is no different then pointing that a towns population is 50% Caucasian. I was not designed or intended to demean anybody or anything. Everyone who knows me as well as my coauthors can and will vouch that discrimination is not anything I tolerate.


  • http://dailytechtalk.com Adam Jackson

    Does this mean I have to return my iPHone?

  • Sean

    This blog has been going downhill a lot recently.

    I’ve been subscribed to this site’s RSS for a long time, over a year. Implying that ownership of a particular device by homosexuals is a bad thing; signifies my last read of this blog.

  • http://thirdstring.com kibby

    Sean, I think you need to read that post a little more in depth. And the link clearly takes you to another site which makes the claim.

  • Sprezzatura

    Doesn’t matter. Putting a phrase like ‘Gayest Phone Ever’ into your headline is at the very least, playing off of homophobia to garner eyeballs.

  • Ian

    Give Dan a break.

  • http://www.uneasysilence.com Dan

    Please read the update.

  • http://mavrev.com Matt

    Who cares what the headline is? If you don’t like what UNEASY reports then GTFO I say.

  • http://www.uneasysilence.com Dan

    Or just don’t read the post. I don’t read every article in a newspaper, there are some that I don’t like and I skip over them. I still buy the paper the next day because I still feel it is a good news source.

  • http://dailytechtalk.com Adam Jackson

    Knowing Dan for almost 3 years now, I know where he stands on this matter and he’s never discriminated or not befriended someone based on their sexual orientation. The headline can be taken wrong but this piece was not meant in a negative way.

    sean, sorry to see you go as an “uneasyreader”

  • http://www.uneasysilence.com Dan

    Sean – email us at tips@uneasysilence.com

  • dstaley

    Dan, I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again. This is YOUR blog, which means YOU can post whatever YOU want.

    P.s.: You buy the newspaper?! I refuse to buy one because I can get all the news I want right here.

  • christopher

    I’m gay, and I have an iPhone. I find this post to be hilarious and believe it to be true. Word, Dan.

  • Roger

    hey, as a longtime reader, I know you guys aren’t homophones (that was supposed to be “phones,” my “gay” phone just corrected it!) By the way, this is my first message on it,it got here direct from china an hour ago (I ordered it last Friday after the Harlem at&t sold out with the guy in front of me).

  • Roger

    dammit, PHOBES…this will take practice

  • Howard

    Dstaley said it, do what you want it’s your blog. I got an iPhone too and I loved it, but that doesn’t mean I’m gay. It just mean gay people are more into tech and approaches new stuff more that most people. In fact, I think gay people are more easy going than regular folks. They admit they are gay and they live with it fine.

  • Tensenki

    Man, this post is pretty gay. These comments are pretty gay too.

  • BroncoBash

    HaHaHa…

    Gotta love when people don’t actually understand what they read.

    Way to think! There was nothing wrong with this post, I actually found it slightly interesting and funny. What the hell was insulting about that?

    If anything..i think someone..and I won’t name names…either

    (1) Is homophobic and owns a shiny new iPhone
    (2) Is homosexual and WAY too sensitive
    (3) Has a “Big Brother” complex and likes to defend other groups as if he’s insulted for them..even if they, as a group, are not insulted.

    Al Sharpton is that you out there???

    Get a grip

  • SMASH!!!!

    tensenki that was gay… you took the words right out of my mouth

    and all i see in this post is that

    apple = designer
    gays <3 designer stuff…

    IM OFFENDED!!!!

  • Justin

    *blink blink* its a phone…not a person… did we miss that down the line people?

  • Alec

    I think you guys really overreacted. Uneasy Silence has been doing a great job of supplying us with iPhone news. And this was, well…. iPhone news.

  • http://atunu.blogspot.com Naser

    “Sean: This blog has been going downhill a lot recently…blah..blah..blah”

    OMFG, Mac zealot alert! Good thing I only have a Nokia 6630. Symbian Smartphones might not be as sleek as iPhone, but one thing they are not is “GAY”.

    and the place I come from is no San Francisco..so yeah, Gay bashing is still on around here. Not that I’m particularly fond of such activity though.

  • http://www.megalithic.org seth

    haha, this is the lamest correlation to the phone i have, but i’ll go for it anyway: does it mean that i have a gambling problem because i have a cingluar blackjack? bwahahaha. i love this site. dan/derek/the rest keep it up! btw, i’d of bought the iphone instead of the blackjack, but i need 3G/hspda for my on-the-go midget donkey pr0n fetish.

  • Carlos

    “The iPhone May Be, Quite Literally, The Honkiest Phone Ever”

    Signed,

    Spic

  • BigGayBert

    Count me in as another queer guy who thinks this post was funny and probably pretty accurate!

    Love the site, Dan! =)

  • chad

    @SEAN

    G’day sir…

    PS don’t read Gawker you might cry :(

  • emory

    @SEAN
    PWNT

  • merom

    *is gay*
    *is an iPhone owner*

    I don’t know how off target the post is to be honest…

  • Alan Rager

    @Sean

    Last I checked, calling something gay was not derogatory unless one thought that being gay was itself wrong. Being insulted that the iPhone is being correlated to a highly homosexual early-adopter crowd is actually homophobic on your part. I’m from a semi-rural part of Texas, so I’m quite accustomed to things being called gay as negative, but I did not expect someone to so quickly take such offense to simple implication of homosexual ownership of a phone (not a negative angle but a neutral one) here.

    @The Uneasy staff

    I found the post to be informative and interesting as the rest of the Uneasy blog. Keep it up, guys.

  • drbehavior

    I just wanted to ‘second’ what Alan Rager said. I couldn’t have been more articulate if I tried and, frankly, everything other than my being from semi-rural Texas was spot on.

  • http://gaydar.com John

    Hmm. I know I read UneasySilence for the useless and stupid information it provides, but this takes the cake. Matter of fact, you could say that reading Uneasy Silence is gay.

  • http://quatre.wordpress.com Matthew [Rodgers]

    Hmm. I’m interested in getting an iPhone… but I’m bi. So does that work out?

  • modemlooper

    I’m gay and dont want the damn phone!

  • http://noneofyourbiz.com whatever

    Just a note… I’m sick of the term “homophobe” I am in no way afraid of fags. I really hate their lifestyle and the fact that every queer couple with kids has pictures in their homes of themselves and their childeren nude (always B&W so they can say its art) doesn’t help any. I am a realtor, thats why I’m in the home (since thats your next question).

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