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Not bait. There is nothing wrong with getting tech jewelry btw..

Its the same story with luxury cars. For the vast majority of people, something like a 250 hp crossover with part time AWD is pretty much the most functional vehicle you can buy. The driving use case for the average person doesn't depend on things like driving dynamics, higher horsepower figures, exhaust notes, or even interior trim. But if your dopamine circuits are trained on being in a BMW and feeling the leather and hearing the engine and experiencing short bursts of higher acceleration, then you are going to think that your current vehicle is better than the former, but you are not making that decision on anything objective.

In the same way, people like Apple products mostly for vanity. You can get a Pixel 8 for half the money of the iPhone and do all the same stuff as the iPhone.