Same here, its a culture thing as well in general Dutch could not begin to give a fuck what someone has or does not have in terms off luxury stuff
Kids here in the UK do, but they do that with every kind of product.
Androids are expensive and pretty
This happens A LOT in so many places
I think he is Dutch like me.
This lol. Android crashes and ANRs (App Not Responsing) and keeping your app under a certain threshold when there are so many trash Android phones out there is the bane of my life.
You have to be joking. You can buy new Android phones for literally 10% of the price of new iPhones. Yes, there are expensive Android models as well, such as the Samsung Galaxy (I have a Note 9 myself but I bought it like 2 years after it came out), but there are no cheap iPhones.
No adult thinks this. Maybe children? Teens? But no adult sees another adult pull out an android and go "ew you poor fuck", unless they're being facetious. There are budget iPhones that cost as little as some budget Androids and there are Androids that cost more than iPhones.
At recess in school maybe? Are you hanging around teens?
They also do a lot to sustain that reputation by aligning themselves with creative professionals across a range of different industries and promoting their products accordingly. And in an age where everyone has access to the same creative tools, and everyone wants to be "a creator," a lot of them gravitate towards Apple products.
It mainly depends on geography. Americans decided that their messaging service of choice is the default messaging app on their phone, which on iPhones is iMessage. Because iMessage is exclusive to iPhones, it falls back to shitty SMS and MMS messages whenever you need to do cross-platform texting, so the only way to have proper group chats is to exclude any Android owners.
The discussion isn't about whether iPhones are good or not, it's about the reason behind the social status often associated with owning one, and that is what I was replying to. I never said the phones are bad and I have nothing against people who prefer them over Android phones.
You're right, people don't literally go 'eww filthy Android peasant', but rich people don't care if what they're buying is best suited to their needs, they just look at the price tag and get the most expensive shit in existence to show that they can. iPhones are the most expensive phones therefore they are the phone of choice for the 'elite', and people who want to be perceived as such will buy them as well. This is what I meant.
I mean they aren't though. Right now a maxed out iPhone doesn't come close to the foldable Android market. If they want to flaunt wealth, the latest foldables start where iPhones max out.
They aren't right now, true, but they were for so long that the reputation has stuck. And the reputation is the only thing that matters in this context.
Not sure how that's gonna stop the celebrities OP is talking about….
