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Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app
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"It's installed by default and all my friends are on it" - 50% of Americans
They don't need to worry about the fact that the other half of Americans are not able to comfortably message them, or participate in group chats, because those are people poorer than them that they might not even want to interact with anyways. Some of them might even be not white.
This becomes even more extreme as ages become younger, with around 98% of college age students and younger having iPhones (this is obviously biased to higher income colleges in metropolitian area but the data is still useful). The peer pressure of not having an iPhone is genuinely incredible (trust me, i experience it). I have genuinely had people stop wanting to be friends with me once they learned I had an Android phone.
Apple has a monopoly so powerful that they influence the social circles of almost every grade schooler and college student in America. This is why they don't want to give it up.
I can afford Apple products. I dont buy them, because, fuck Apple.
If someone offered me a free iPhone on the condition that I use it, I'd decline.
Same. My plan would be to sell it so I could buy something else lol
Fuck. I sent a comment with my old account.
I did get given a free iPhone! I opted not to use it.
Fuck those horrible people. They don't deserve to be anyone's friends with such a shitty attitude.
You have just described 98% of Americans.
I wanna talk a bit about where this comes from. There are what, two or three models of iPhone that you can buy off the shelf right now?
Think about grade school kids and their first phone. What do they get? Well, parents almost expect them to break the phone. If it's an iPhone, then it's one of the three, expensive models. If it's an Android, it's probably a cheap piece of shit (because on Android those are an option). It's certainly not a Pixel or the latest Samsung.
So grade school kids learn that iPhone = quality, and Android = cheap pieces of shit. And even if at the high end Android is better, young people by and large don't experience that. And it sticks with them. Apple did a similar strategy with putting Apple computers into every grade school in the 1980s.
And Apple is doing everything they can to reinforce this marketing and peer pressure, especially the iMessage thing. The only reason the iMessage "issue" exists is because Apple wants it to exist. They want the $700 cosmetic for chat to continue to exist. It's a large part of their business model.
Most of my tech friends bought their babies iPad pros. As in, they crawled on them. I was told this will help them become programmers.
is like they don't know addiction exist
As an adult with Android, I can say this is real. I was on Safari in Africa and everybody else with me had iPhones. They were airdropping pictures to each other and I was reduced to begging for somebody to email them to me.
We were on a tour and the guide had an iPhone, but we have Android phones. He took some photos and said "Oh if you had an iPhone I could just Airdrop them to you" and we said "If you had an Android phone you could Nearby Share them to us".
Then there was much explaining about how Airdrop was better because it works with iPhones, and Nearby Share is no good because it won't work with iPhones.
Couldn't quite get them to see the irony about that complaint.