Monday, April 26, 2010

Gay Phone (definition)


An iPhone.  Every gay boy in the bar has one.

(Android phone?  Please.  There might be 1 of them in the bar for every 25 iPhones.  A faux gay phone.  But I’ll accept that five years from now, some other phone will be the trendy everyon-has-one, everyone-cruises-on-one device.  Then that one can be the “gay phone”.  But today, it’s the iPhone.)
 

2 comments:

  1. The popularity of the iPhone for gay guys might be related to the availability of the Grindr app for iPhone. Just surmisin' ...

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  2. I think you're confusing cause and effect? The iPhone was omnipresent before Grindr came on the scene; that's why they created it, after all. But to be sure, the #1 reason you see guys pull it out (ahem) in the bar these days is to check Grindr.

    (I do. I admit it.)

    But even then, I don't think that the availability of Grindr itself drives iPhone sales to gay boys. (I don't think hardly any specific app drives sales to any demographic.) It's a sales plus at best.

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