iPhone 是現時智能手機市場最受歡迎的機款之一,相信沒有太多人表示異議。不過 HTC 美國的執行總裁 Martin Fichter 最近就作出了一個十分「有趣」的言論,他認為學生們對 iPhone 已經失去興趣,因為「他們的爸爸有一台 iPhone,iPhone 已經不像外界所說般那麼帥!」
據報導表示,Fichter 在帶女兒回學校 Reed College 時,他在地面一層與一些年青人聊過天,他表示沒有任何一個人說他們擁有 iPhone,理由是「爸爸已經有一台」,他覺得這是市場上一個十分有趣的論點,他認為 iPhone 已不像以往那麼帥,年青人們寧願擁有 HTC 手機、Samsung 手機、甚至中國廠商製造的裝置(山寨機?)。他更表示,你可以看看學校校園內,使用 MacBook Air 反而讓人感到帥,但使用 iPhone 就不是那麼一回事了。
誠然,這類「調查」確實有夠「特別」,尤其是由一個 HTC 高層,對著一班年青人來做。不過外國報導有一句,實在令筆者忍俊不禁:「They also have no interest in dad’s Porsche.(他們同樣對爸爸的保時捷跑車沒有興趣。)」,真是諷刺!不知道大家相信不相信 HTC 美國的執行總裁的一番「調查」?對於筆者而言,不管你信不信,反正我就……不信了!不過,當作茶餘飯後的有趣話題來說,卻也是不錯。如果大家想看看該執行主席的言論「原文」,可參考如下:
On the iPhone 5 hype: “Apple is innovating. Samsung is innovating. We are innovating. Everybody is innovating. And everybody is doing different things for the end consumers. I brought my daughter back to college — she’s down in Portland at Reed — and I talked to a few of the kids on her floor. And none of them has an iPhone because they told me: ‘My dad has an iPhone.’ There’s an interesting thing that’s going on in the market. The iPhone becomes a little less cool than it was. They were carrying HTCs. They were carrying Samsungs. They were even carrying some Chinese manufacture’s devices. If you look at a college campus, Mac Book Airs are cool. iPhones are not that cool anymore. We here are using iPhones, but our kids don’t find them that cool anymore.”
資料來源:9to5Mac