It's a real shame that this theory is proposed over and over again.

It simultaneously puts the iPhone buying public down as ill-informed shopping sheep and elevates those that go in intending to buy an Android phone from the get-go.

I personally think better of most people. They buy phones for a variety of reasons, trickery by nefarious phone store salesmen, taking advantage of poor victimized and gullible iPhone buyers is probably very low on the list.