• Alchalide@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Does this really matter that much in the US?. Here in the Netherlands about 70% of people had an android phone in 2022. Nobody really cares what you use, as long as you’re happy using it.

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          11 months ago

          It was only six months ago that I learnt they were getting their knickers in a twist for years about the colour of text messages

          I had absolutely no fucking clue that text messages had different colours

          How. Fuckin. Infantile is that?!?

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            11 months ago

            If you think it’s the color of the bubble that is the problem, you might be the infant

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              11 months ago

              I’m not the one paying a grand for a phone that doesn’t support basic SMS functions and reduces the quality of MMS for goodness knows what reason but probably money

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                11 months ago

                Yeah, no one claimed it was intellectual, stop putting words in my mouth.

                All grandma knows is when we add cousin Linus all the bubbles turn green and the photos look terrible, so she leaves him out and only emails him later if she remembers.

                Also, yeah that’s Apple’s fault. Never said it wasn’t.

                But to imply that there is, like, bubble racism or something going on, ie it’s purely over aesthetics, and that people are being “infantile” because of it, is ignorant reductance of such magnitude that you basically burned your own strawman down.

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                11 months ago

                Except it’s not the color, it’s the feature set that the colors represent.

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                    11 months ago

                    Drop the condescending attitude please. I know all about RCS. I know all about Apple’s ecosystem and what they choose to allow on it. Compliance with standards is still a part of feature set I was referring to. Apple wants to lock people into their hardware and software. This is a known fact. You can like it or not, but there’s still more to the differences between green bubbles and blue ones and if you continue to act like there’s not then you’re the ignorant one in the conversation.

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                  11 months ago

                  Which is exactly one of the reasons I hate Apple. That feature set mismatch isn’t done because Android developers can’t figure out how to implement those features. It’s because Apple is locking out anyone else from using them to encourage this shit so they sell more iPhones. Your choice is as much the reason your chats don’t have those features as any Android owner’s choice is.

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        11 months ago

        I remember when the iphone first came out. A guy in my country flew to the US to buy one then came back to brag that he’s the first one in the country to have one and he couldn’t even use it here.

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        11 months ago

        I hope you would not avoid me for having an iPhone any more than I would avoid you for having an Android phone because judging people for what phone or computer or OS they use is stupid. In my case, I have an iPhone because I got in very early and now have several hundred dollars’ worth of apps I don’t want to pay for again. Maybe one day I will decide it is worth that sacrifice, but right now, I don’t feel like it is. I also don’t get the latest and best iPhone. I replaced my XR with a 13 this year.

        But to me, you are no better than the hypothetical date in this post who judges the person for not having an iPhone. Why do either of you give a shit? It’s a personal choice and it doesn’t matter any more than what color your house is painted or what percent of fat you like in your milk.

        Judge people for their attitudes and their actions, not what personal devices they decide to spend their money on.

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      11 months ago

      iPhone is dominant in the US, but I can’t believe people give enough of a shit about which smartphone someone uses for it to be a dealbreaker in finding a significant other.

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        11 months ago

        Oh they definitely do, especially among young people. They even get bullied over the color of the iMessage text bubble which shows up in different color if the message was sent from a phone other than iPhone.

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        11 months ago

        I blame dating sites to be honest.

        For a large portion of women they can have almost anyone at the push of a button and so they start rejecting people for the most absurd things.

        I imagine the same could be said for the “chads” on dating sites, but I think they care more about the pump and dump than being superficial about anything because they aren’t in it for a relationship.

        Then there is me, a literal joke of a human. My phone would probably be the last thing I’d get rejected for as you won’t even get that far before swiping “not ever.” Lol

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      11 months ago

      I’m a Finn, not sure what the apple % is here, but I’ve never met anyone who isn’t either a child or atleast slightly retarded that owns one.