Researchers find that owning an iPhone or iPad is the number-one way to guess if you’re rich or not
Found on Business Insider on Monday, 09 July 2018
"Across all years in our data, no individual brand is as predictive of being high-income as owning an Apple iPhone in 2016," the researchers wrote.
The iPhone is a luxury product that is usually priced higher than competing smartphones. While some low-end Android phones retail for as little as $100 or less, Apple recently raised the price of its highest-end iPhone to $999 or more.
Maybe they are rich, but they are definatively pitiful if they feel the need to use brands to define and represent themselves.