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by laurex 1541 days ago
Side question: From a technical perspective, why was it iPhone-only for so long? Even Twitter Spaces still don't work on the web AFAIK despite having announced their intent to do so nearly a year ago.
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Rich and famous Americans don't use Android phones, so it added to the apparent exclusivity - I'm sure it's not much more than that, their actual VoIP tech was a SaaS and it's easy to assume that they didn't actually need Android customers at that point.

This isn't meant as a quip or sarcasm, it is actually what a lot of people thought back in its "golden age", reading through Twitter and other social networks. For a lot of people in the US, Android phone == poor, no taste. iPhones are status symbols.

iPhones are status symbols

I can agree with that and it is exactly why I never want one. Cheap Chinaphone, never paying for or subscribing to apps and not giving a shit about optics. That is my special snowflake fashion statement.