[shados]

> What’s the point in degrading the UX without telling the user 1) why the UX is degraded, 2) what they can do about it? I

Because 1) everyone in the Apple world knows, and 2) they want the answer to "What can be done about it" to be "Shame your peers into switching to an iPhone".

And it works. A little too well, especially with younger folks.

[JohnFen]

I have never once felt any shame for using Android, nor have I felt any pressure to switch to Apple. If anyone in my social circle tried that sort of nonsense, I'd never stop ridiculing them about it.

But I'm also the opposite of a younger folk.

[shados]

Yeah, I don't have issues either. But in the US, in gen z and younger social circles, the "green bubble stigma" is a very real thing.