Well, it’s official – if there’s been a survey, it must be official, right? – Apple iPhone users have more sexual partners than both Blackberry and Android, by the age of thirty. According to a survey done by online dating company OKCupid, which boasts an active membership of 3.5 million people with almost 10,000 of those using their smartphones to take the shot that’s used for their profile, Apple’s phone is the clear winner, Fortune magazine reports. It seems women with iPhones had the highest rate of partners by age thirty, and Google’s Android faired the worst of the three phones.
Women topped the list with the average partner count of twelve, which, I might humbly add, seems fairly restrained. I’d be interested to know what the ‘score rate’ is for those with a cheap and painfully un-hip Nokia that cost about £20 five years ago, and is currently being held together by a bit of tape (not that that’s my phone mind you, I just, uh, know a guy like that, ok?). Perhaps builders, cabbies, plumbers, and dudes who work at bingo halls will see this survey and scoff, having bedded hundreds of women, owning nothing more current than a carrier pigeon or a pager dating from 1998. It’s doubtful though.
Whatever the case may be, this is a positive bit of PR that certainly puts the new iPhone gripe of “my palm is cutting off the reception” to bed, quite literally. This survey comes as Blackberry has just unveiled its new “Torch” phone – very much modelled on Apple’s, and their own version of the iPad. Perhaps what they need to do is bring out the big guns and throw in a dinner for two (someplace romantic) and a couple of tickets to Les Mis with every smartphone purchase, otherwise, something tells me they’ll still be trailing Apple in the sex department for quite some time. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
