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It's so strange that this is even a thing
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Tell me youre a mouth breathing moron without telling me youre a mouth breathing moron.
Im equally likely to curb you if you use an iphone. You demonstrate herd mentality and that you dont understand technology. You spent $2k to use instagram and tiktok. Wow.
I'm a woman in the U.S. and I've never had a friend ditch a guy for using a different phone than them.
This is either fake, limited to the younger generation, infrequent enough that I've never encountered it, or regional
I know men who have a hard time getting dates, but phone choice has never been brought up as to why they're rejected
(Frankly, if someone rejects anyone for what phone they are using, the rejecting-party's clearly not worth pursuing)
Everything on the internet is rage bait.
Naw this is just apple marketing doing it's thing.
I think it's a younger demographic thing. I know my oldest niece for sure buys and uses only things that have a status symbol that is approved by other high school students. Basically an iPhone in one hand and a Starbucks cup in the other is peak fashion.
Exactly. I would do the opposite, let them see your phone early and if they reject you because of it then you dodged that bullet.
Actually I encounter this routinely as a work issue. My work requires a lot of co-ordination of labor via cellphone and some of the basic features Apple has - regular old group messages for instance don't show me, an android user, if a text is part of a group message and doesn't allow me control over the response. Depending on my software update it either sends to everyone who was tagged in the original message or no one but the original recipient but I won't know until I send it. That means any message I send back leaves me open to communication errors.
Also a whole bunch of stuff is proprietary, facetime, airdrop and so on meaning the ease of sharing information to me because of my hardware can be a factor in whether I get hired or not. This is actually purposefully done by Apple, they create convenience only between their users so it creates social pressure by causing android users to be routine social nuisances. They basically cause all these little micro fractures of actual peer to peer relationships on purpose to sneakily force android users to give up and buy their shit or else people have to be mindful of an android users limitations the same way you might have to adapt your behaviour to someone's disability or allergy... By taking on the cognitive work of understanding and adapting to someone else's limitations.
If you've ever seen someone throw a fit because they had to pick a restaurant with a gluten free option you know certain people aren't great at doing anything that inconveniences them even a little.
This is, in fact, zoomer bullshit.
If all of you that judge people over their phone can get together and not fuck, would really be doing the human race a solid.
If you think calling all iPhone owners ignorant, you’re not actually offering a “fair balance”. You’re just being biased and disrespectful of people choices.
I made my point. What do iphone owners have beef with android owners for? For apparently having worse cameras? That's a ridiculous reason to discriminate against someone. And if they are of that opinion, then that only reinforces my theory that most iphone owners are incensed by the corporate iconography and perceived in-crowd of Apple owners. A sheep.
To actually answer your question: The beef is with green (SMS) text bubbles. iMessage is closer to Discord chats; You can react to messages, edit messages, delete/unsend messages, see read receipts, send messages with spoiler text, draw doodles directly in the chat, send voice memos, send full quality images/videos, share iCloud links natively, send money directly via ApplePay, send animated emojis, stickers, and embedded gifs, etc… But as soon as an android user gets added to the chat, everyone is downgraded to regular SMS texts.
Yes, on the back end it’s largely Apple’s fault for refusing to play nicely with other brands. But that doesn’t change the fact that on the front end the result is a noticeably worse experience for Apple users every time they message an android. The “ugh, green text bubbles” reaction is because they’re missing a lot of features that are built directly into iMessage.
I’m not saying it justifies making dating decisions based on a person’s phone choice. I’m dating someone who has an android, because why wouldn’t I? I’m not dating her for her phone. But some people may use those extra features more than I do, and may end up annoyed every time they have to text that person.
It’d be like if one person in a Discord group chat decided they didn’t want any of the nice features of Discord… So Discord just disabled those features for the entire group chat. Rather than not displaying them to that one person, it just turns them off entirely for the entire chat. So now nobody can use them, even if they wanted to. Naturally, the other people in the group chat may get a little annoyed every time they want to send a gif or react to a text, but can’t.
Go cry to Apple then? As the user of any non Apple phone in a group text with iMessage users, it's even more annoying to get reacts as completely separate texts ("Laughed at an image"), and it makes Apple users look like idiots. The standard is SMS and they built this crap on top of it, not the other way around.
Yeah, we all understand the situation. If you get annoyed with the Android user for loss of iMessage functionality you're still a piece of shit.
"If you think calling all iphone owners ignorant" is an extremely funny way to start this statement
I keep forgetting the likely age of this group.
Edit: hey - thanks for reminding me to block this sub
You sound like a mouth breathing moron buddy. What if someone really cares about privacy? Apple has demonstrated over and over again they will work hard to safeguard users security and privacy - Google does not care about privacy at all, and they only care about security when it doesn't conflict with their need to track and monetize you at the moment
I hope this is humour.
No I'm serious, I'll take apple for privacy and security anyday, everyday.
Apple is no different than Google. They simply have better marketing.
They are both big companies with flagship cellphones yes. From someone who takes security seriously, they are not the same - from how apple implemented the secure enclave to how they protect their users privacy (there is a lot I can't talk about, but if you know you know). Security is a cat and mouse game and/or and arms race. You either care about this stuff or not, but apple and Google are not the same