blind leading the blind.. that's pretty much the general view of singaporeans.. they tend to have no personal reasoning ability in various situations.
10 years ago, there was the hello kitty craze. people queuing up at mcdonalds for hours after hours just to get the soft toy. most of them dont even like hello kitty, they are just there because other people are queuing for it. ask anyone that once queued then, and if they even dare to admit, most of them would be very embarassed with doing so.
at a new place and not sure what to eat, trust the queue and buy from the stall with the longest queue.
and of course, the latest craze is the iphone mania. i use a windows 7 phone, and i am not an anti-apple person. i did own various apple products previously.
the iphone is an ok phone. certainly worthy to take up a portion of the marketshare, but certainly the dominance in singapore is not logical. the worldwide marketshare of the iphone is lik 20+% with android having 40-50+%. why is it singapore display a totally different trend from the rest of the world?
a friend of mine decided to get an iphone just because her friends told her to. so once, she asked a android using friend of mine why did she not buy an iphone? the question is, why an iphone?
a common reason is the number of apps. but if that's the reason, people should be moving to the android now, since it's apps are growing so much faster than the iphone. and if the reason is the cons of the other phones, then the iphones has plenty of flaws too.
the only explanation can only be the sheep-effect. people that just follow the trend without thinking about it. the reason why everytime someone post a "what phone should i get?" on his or her facebook status, it is followed by numerous "iphones" from the friends, though not once did i see anyone explain why an iphone.
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