Want a wacky stat to start your Monday? According to a new poll by YouGov, iPhone owners are the most likely smartphone users to send “sexts.”
Apparently, more than 30% of iPhone users have sent explicit messages at some point, compared to 21% of Blackberry users, and 17% of people with a Samsung device.
“It does seem that iPhone owners are certainly a little more risque when it comes to their mobile communications,” says Duncan Spencer, managing director of the UK-based insurance2go.co.uk, who commissioned the research.
According to the study, 19% of smartphone users admitted to sending sexts or lewd photos to the wrong person — with 4% accidentally sent to mothers-in-law.
The survey also discovered that iPhone owners are twice as likely to end a relationship by text message — with 12% of iPhone owners having done this at some stage, compared to an average of 6%.
Samsung owners were reportedly unable to copy their iPhone-owning brethren when it comes to hooking up. Supposedly it’s because they lack the patents to get into a relationship. (Yeah, I made that last one up.)
Source: Huffington Post
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
3 responses to “iPhone users are more likely to send sexts, poll claims”
iPhones are expensive and tend to sell more in the advanced industrialized countries. Go figure from there.
Well think about it, would you sext a neckbearded fandroid?
This is the only place on the internet where I feel safe to laugh at Android users without the fear of one popping up and punching me right in my technological device choices.