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by anonporridge 916 days ago
I'm an Android user who cares.

Not necessarily for myself, but more generally for the damage Apple is doing to society by creating a divisive wedge between people for the sake of luxury signalling.

Like you say, there are lots of iPhone users who pressure and exclude outsiders to try to force them to get iPhones. Android doesn't do anything like this.

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> the damage Apple is doing to society by creating a divisive wedge between people for the sake of luxury signalling.

Would you be able to elaborate on this and provide some examples, please. With respect to iMessage, that is.

Some people are apparently so torn up about their text message bubbles being a different colour, they’ll apparently wage a holy war for it in the comments.

Spoiler alert everyone: if you want the product feature, buy the product.