From India Times
Gadgets are New Status Symbols
People not only judge each other on what they drive, what they wear and where they live, they are now judging each other on what electronics they whip out to use in public.
The iPhone seems to carry cachet for many users and Apple's devices are often seen as the "highest-end consumer products" in the gadget world, said Coye Cheshire, associate professor of sociology at the Berkeley School of Information....