The amount of virulent hatred in this thread is making me sick. Firstly, for all you who were never taught to read between the lines, he was not suggesting that anyone without an iPhone is somehow backward: he lives in Brisbane, and if it's anything like Sydney or Melbourne you can't walk around without seeing people flashing their iPhones. That's all there is to it: it's a hyperbolic way of saying how popular they are in Australia, it's not a personal attack on you.
Second, I don't have an iPhone because I view phone plans in general with an air of suspicion, but owning an iPhone does not automatically make you a 'hipster ******' as some people in here seem to be insinuating. If you use your phone often enough to warrant paying for an AUD $50 a month plan, the chances are you'll buy one of the better known brands, including the iPhone. And maybe while you're on a bus or waiting in someone's reception area, you'll want to entertain yourself and fancy playing a game. Is that at all unreasonable? Is it not therefore also reasonable for an expert critic of games to apply his analysis to a few popular titles so that you have some idea of what to expect, and possibly get a few laughs in the process?
Bottom line: I have lots of friends, relatives etc with iPhones and none of them are the kind of 'hipster faggots' whose name implies that they would go around sneering at you for not having the latest gadgetry. I suspect that this kind of childish hostility towards the iPhone arises from a deep-rooted insecurity among people for whom gaming and technology forms a huge part of their identity, fearing that the rising popularity of smartphones and 'casual' gaming will erode the barriers traditionally erected between them and the rest of society. This is further evidenced by the way a lot of people keep ragging on Apple for keeping the OS locked down: psychologically this represents an attempt to reinforce the technological gap by asserting that anyone who chooses any product with less flexibility doesn't know what they're really doing. To those people I say stop flicking peas at the shadows and come out into the real world. No one is going to call you names. The actual hipsters might, but no one really likes them, and their skinny jeans will make them all infertile.
