Idk man, I'm 18 and lovin my modded Galaxy A52S. It can do everything an iphone can and even more, for a fifth of the price...
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
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Just idiots applying peer pressure to get others down to their level.
My kids both have android phones (cheap ones) and if they demanded iPhones I'd tell them to gtfo. But my kids aren't brats and are content with their phones they have - cheap Samsungs - that are capable of running all the crap they're into - Tiktok, Snapchat, Whatsapp etc. Why would they even need anything more powerful?
Maybe there are private schools where phone snobbery is a thing and rich parents indulge their brats every desire. Maybe in that environment an iPhone holds an allure that an Android cannot match. But there are plenty of weird premium Android phones - flip phones, folding phones etc. so maybe that is nonsense too. If I were a spoiled brat with rich parents I might be demanding mommy & daddy buy me a Z Fold to show off. If my parents were super rich I might be demanding they get me a designer phone like a Vertu.
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Nothing makes me cringe more than kids who buy an Apple device and pretend they own it.
They must love having to ask their parents for a new phone every couple of years because they can't install apps due to their phone being out of date
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Status symbol VS smartphone, a phone isn't smart if you can't sideload apps or flash a custom rom.
I saw a young American tech YouTuber, he would get an old iphone SE as a backup phone just so he could use iMessage with his friends. I'm not judging though, i think iPhones are nice devices just very limited.
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The lion is not concerned by the opinion of a sheep.
Consumer fetishism
My little brother has an Android (like the rest of my family) and he hates it. For the longest time he has been begging for an iPhone.
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