iPhone users - Do you own a Mac?

iPhone and Mac?

  • I own an iPhone and a Mac computer

    Votes: 51 51.0%

  • I own an iPhone but don't own a Mac computer, however use one regularly

    Votes: 1 1.0%

  • I own an iPhone but don't own a Mac computer

    Votes: 33 33.0%

  • I don't own an iPhone but own a Mac

    Votes: 6 6.0%

  • I don't own an iPhone or a Mac

    Votes: 9 9.0%
  • Total voters
    100
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It's something i've been wondering for a while but i'm interested to know how many people who own iPhones also own a mac (either before or after getting an iPhone). From comments I've read here and other places the majority of iPhone users seem to also have a Mac, which is interesting imo.

I know there will be a much larger proportion of mac users on this forum due to it's nature so it hopefully there will be a few who can answer the question for me.:lol:
 
iPhone and windows here! I'd love a mac, but don't think I can deal with switching over! I know where everything is on windows!
 
Got an iPhone and an iMac :) (had the iPhone first)

Dave.
 
I have an iPhone and a mac, my wife has an iPhone and a windows machine. Pretty much everyone I know has an iPhone these days, oddly enough pretty much everyone I know has also moved over to macs over the last year or so.
 
I have a PC, Mac's have always bemused me. Probably because I used to manage a printing firm, and whenever I asked the graphic designers to do ANYTHING they made it look so bloody complicated it put me off.

But I love my iPhone, and when my PC is up for renewal, and if I'm feeling flush, I'd quite like a funky looking Mac in my office at home (because I know almost nothing about computers, so the asthetics are the most important bit for me!).
 
No Mac here, well that's not exactly true I have one of those little square macs somewhere but it's only ever been used for about 15 mins, think it's in the loft now where it belongs.
 
I was a Mac user and got the iPhone because of that. I use MobileMe so everything syncs perfectly. Had I been a Windows user I'd have got a Blackberry.
 
Got an iPhone - use windows 7 at home and ubuntu at work. Only ever played with a mac for a couple of minutes.

The thing I don't get about Apple is how they get so much good will shown towards them. Would Microsoft get away with tightly coupling zune to windows media player.
 
i gotta macbook and iphone and use a mac in work too so all three here
 
iphone on vista x64

looking into getting a mac though, as going to make some apps (job 3d computer games artist)
 
iphone on vista laptop mainly, though i do have a mac, as well as a desktop. I dont sync to mac, its all through windoze as i hardly use the mac
 
I have an iPhone and work all day on an iMac 24" with Windows Vista installed on it. Couldn't use the Mac OS to do my day job as it meant making lots of compromises in my workflow which slowed me down and eventually drove me mad.

Will not consider buying a Mac myself as they are in my opinion overpriced and I've seen nothing that makes me say 'I want that' to justify the extra expense.

I actually own an Acer laptop which is about a year old now and do everything I need running Windows 7 Release Candidate.

Trev
 
We have x2 iPhones, a 3G for Jill and 3GS for yours truly and x3 MACs... :D

Not sure what came first now but I have had an iPhone since their first introduction and managed to upgrade each time a new one is introduced and never regretted my move from PC to MAC a couple of years or so ago... ;)






:p
 
both. MBP sits under my bed with a dead expanded battery and a dead harddrive.

use my PC laptop as my main computer using Windows 7. it's older than my MBP and still going strong :]
 
I've used Macs for years (since my computer systems course at uni) and got an iPhone as soon as I could after they came out.
 
Interesting, so there definately looks to be a correlation with those that own a mac and an iPhone, however it's also interesting to see the number of people who don't own a mac but do an iPhone (but still pretty significantly below the iphone/mac users).

Now the question is why? Is it the age old, apple fanboiz, apple culture, or is it the idea that mac users are more gadget freaks than the rest of the population (according to a link in one of the other threads) or something else? It's probably a mix of all of them I guess, however the gadget obsession (overall numbers of the article not the relation to gadget love:p) is probably a bit false, as I can see around 15% of windows users also being gadget obsessed (me being one of them :o).

Next question is what are your jobs. :p

(I have 3 friends that have iPhones, all fit the "stereotype" that seems to go around with apple products, one is in reruitement and wears sleeveless jumpers etc, another is very camp and also of the sleeveless jumper persuasion and the third is a gadget freak):D
 
i work in Network and Systems Administration...

i own an iPhone because it's the phone that fits my requirements. i'm thinking of replacing it with an HTC Hero purely because the iPhone is now common as muck and comes with some kind of strange "High Horse" attitude. i have no allegiances towards Apple - far from it in fact.

i find it amusing that Apple fanbois think they've got one up on PC users - but that's an age old argument really. there's no proof or even any reason why PC users should be classed as people who aren't particularly bothered by gadgets just because they dont pander to Apple's beckon call. Apple users are more Apple gadget oriented and are likely to have an Apple iPod, Apple iPhone, Apple software, Apple keyboard etc etc etc ad infinitum, rather than PC users who are more generally gadget non-specific and will have products from Sony, Apple, Nokia, Samsung, LG, Logitech, Microsoft, yadda yadda.
 
I don't got a job... :shrug:


Next question... :suspect:





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I'm an insurance broker by main trade and log into a remote windows desktop which I can do on my Mac.

However, I use Macs because I like them and they work well for me, I've never understood having to justify why you own something, yet Mac owners seem to have to do so constantly. Surely you own something simply because you want to own it :shrug:
 
Mac owner and iPhone user here.

I own a digital printing company, we use both Mac's and PC's at work. I'm a self confessed gadget freek lol :) :runaway:
 
Dman said:
I'm an insurance broker by main trade and log into a remote windows desktop which I can do on my Mac.

However, I use Macs because I like them and they work well for me, I've never understood having to justify why you own something, yet Mac owners seem to have to do so constantly. Surely you own something simply because you want to own it :shrug:
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I think a lot of the time they aren't justifying because they are forced to, but more because they want to (if you see what I mean:thinking:). It's the age old problem with the iPhone especially, like recrudesce mentioned, there seems to be an aloofness that a lot of iPhone users have about their phones, that then leads to them justifying them a lot of the time because they have essentially stuck it in your face and you've questioned it. Just the other day I pulled out my Touch HD (HD and iPhone are essentially the same) and my friend immediately went "I'm suprised you didn't get an iPhone", whilst pulling his out... I bit my tongue and replied back "I find this a bit more useful" (didn't have the heart to say "STFU, this is a much better phone...":lol:), however it's another one of those stereotypes that seems to get a bit too close to the grain sometimes.

You've also got the thread about the x64 operating systems, one member here seemed to have signed up just to tell us how much better his mac was than Vista XP... With no actual reasoning.

Having said that there is a lot of baiting from windows users as well, it's definately not all one way.
 
Mac & iPhone for me. First iPhone came from NY, couldn't wait for it to be released over here so got someone to bring one back for me.
 
recrudesce said:
i find it amusing that Apple fanbois think they've got one up on PC users - but that's an age old argument really. there's no proof or even any reason why PC users should be classed as people who aren't particularly bothered by gadgets just because they dont pander to Apple's beckon call. Apple users are more Apple gadget oriented and are likely to have an Apple iPod, Apple iPhone, Apple software, Apple keyboard etc etc etc ad infinitum, rather than PC users who are more generally gadget non-specific and will have products from Sony, Apple, Nokia, Samsung, LG, Logitech, Microsoft, yadda yadda.
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Evidence was from an actual poll of people using a proper survey company so I would say it was proof (it's in one of the threads in this part of the forum, however I can't remember which). However as I already mentioned it's a bit of a stupid poll, windows users will constitute a much wider range of society, from people who just want a cheap PC to use email, all the way up to gadget obessed overclocking types. Generally mac users will be those that are really in to their gadgets, that's why they spent on average far more than a windows owner (due to the distinct lack of really cheap £300 macs ala cheap windows word processing machines), because they want their machine not just for basic stuff, they will actually use it to its max as such. If you did a survey of those that spent like for like on windows/mac machines you would probably come to a very different conclusion, that both have as many gadgets as the other, although looking at this thread perhaps the Apple owner will have more Apple products. (think the other stat was something like 80% of mac users owned an iPod, whereas around 30% or windows users did).:)
 
I admit, i'm one of those fan boys!:D

I do love my gadgets but not just Apple. Before the iPhone came along i always stuck with Nokia as i found these to be the best (My own personal opinion) and the last one being the N95. This was a cool phone but when the iPhone came along it just seemed so much better to me, i know it couldn't do some of the things the N95 could but the things i wanted it for it did them much better.

I'm a Graphic Designer and started using Mac's 15 years ago at College this being the reason for still using them now.
 
i have PC and laptop running windows, then got iphone and now just broughta mac book pro,.......... living the dream
 
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