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Apple being Apple again. Just why does anyone actually like that company?

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[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 51 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Android is more popular globally, the only place where it isn't true (AFAIK) is USA where the colour of the text bubble is important for reasons that defy logic.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

where the colour of the text bubble is important for reasons that defy logic.

That's just a thing tweens and teens do, it's just like when kids were obsessed with expensive shoes when I was a kid and would ostracize the kids who couldn't afford them. No sane adult I have ever met gave a shit about my text bubbles.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

That's half-true. No adults I voluntarily associate with care what brand of phone anybody else has in theory, but a lot of the iPhone owners are vehemently unwilling to install any third-party messaging apps. That means:

  • Messaging about anything where security is important is a problem. Most people don't have big secrets, but sending things that could be used for identity theft isn't terribly rare.
  • Exchanging high-quality media is impossible.
  • People will exclude non-iPhone users from group chats because falling back to MMS is a bad experience for everyone.
[–] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah. We usually mock apple users in my country xd they go in high debt to get one of those candy bricks and can't even afford a cellular plan afterwards. Lmao