[idle_zealot]

How did you manage to take this as a personal insult? Some people buy an iPhone for the blue bubble, some have what they believe to be good technical reasons to buy one, some people like the aesthetics, some people buy one out of habit. Stating that each category exists is not an insult to those who fall outside it.

[paulmd]

> How did you manage to take this as a personal insult?

years and years of "apple sheeple" variants tend to take their toll, you're just the latest in an endless parade of microaggressions even if you don't think your particular case was notable.

why is it so important for you to push on the idea apple users being thoughtless trend-followers? just don't do that, be better. you can do it. the next time you feel like posting that, simply take a deep breath and don't post it.

there is just no reason to go around posting that "[device that 50% of people own] users are all doing it for [trite/dismissive reason]" in the first place, let alone on a tech forum where everyone has very specific reasons for their tech purchases. and it's so completely normalized, android users do it so routinely and don't even think that what they are saying is offensive. it's literally the classic microaggression problem.

[everforward]

It's a socioeconomic indicator for high status, and it would be foolish to ignore that as part of Apple's strategy.

Android doesn't suffer from that kind of complaint because it's often perceived as the opposite: a socioeconomic indicator for low status. It's socially acceptable to mock people for choosing high socioeconomic indicators, but not low socioeconomic indicators.

"You only bought that because you're rich" has a very different ring than "you only bought that because you're poor".

That perception of low vs high indicators is somewhat wrong (high-end Android phones cost more than the latest iPhone, used iPhones are pretty affordable) but it is the perception.

[Toutouxc]

You need to read the message again, they said nothing like that.

[tssva]

Do Apple devices not have a shift key?

[masa331]

> on a tech forum where everyone has very specific reasons for their tech purchases

Thats a very funny statement. From my experience tech people in general are the ones falling for vanity, fashion, dogmas etc. most often while claiming some "practical" reasons

[jhasse]

he didn't say that though???