"I find it quite concerning that such a supposed high brow university would throw together such a poor and unbalanced experiment ..."wrote Jay Oakesey, at Time's , which offered Harry McCracken's Technologizer.com account of the video.

At , one commenter, Tablewriter, wrote, "the research is so flawed that the guy deserves to lose his job over it. It's what I'd expect from a fourth grader. There is NOTHING of value here."

"Clearly this was RIGGED," wrote jwd0808 at YouTube. "The HTC Thunderbolt's home screen was not the default -- they removed both the people and the text messaging icons. They guy using the Windows phone was just an idiot ..."

Plenty of others joined in attacking the testers. "I think some of those testers are freaking stupid :|," posted cPTcAPSLOCK, at WMPoweruser.com. "I never knew people could be so dumb," posted Bloodoathjg on YouTube. "[A]nyone with half a f***ing brain can navigate these phones," wrote a user with the handle dicksoper.

More than few assumed Galletta was the narrator: He was excoriated for calling the iPhone the "iPhone 4G," though some posters said he probably meant "fourth generation," and the Samsung device a "Windows 7 phone" instead of "Windows Phone 7."