[781]

With everybody now having an iPhone and Macbook, they don't feel that exclusive anymore. So they need to up the game, to show they are still a luxury product.

A $50k computer is certainly a good start from this point of view, Apple needs to reassert itself as a status symbol. They need to get the word out far and wide that they are selling a computer with the price of a good car.

[whitepoplar]

I think the best way to do this is to sell a $2-3k iPhone.

[jethro_tell]

don't worry, green texts keeps people snobby even if they don't know what it means.

[anchpop]

There's definitely snob, but SMS is a really bad protocol by today's standards. (Most of my family is on RCS (aka Google Chat) now, and it's a huge improvement while still being worse than iMessage.)

[scarface74]

So unencrypted RCS is better than unencrypted SMS?

[anchpop]

The vast majority of people don't care about E2E encryption, and those that do still probably prefer RCS to SMS (typing indicators, messages send faster, images aren't compressed as all hell, group chats work, read receipts)

[whitepoplar]

green texts are such a thing! gross.