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No. People like my parents buy iPhone because it works and because it's a serious phone. Nobody associates iPhone with status. It's a ubiquitous commodity devic
by muninn_ 10y ago
No. People like my parents buy iPhone because it works and because it's a serious phone. Nobody associates iPhone with status. It's a ubiquitous commodity device.
- jlarocco 10y agoAre you seriously claiming Apple products aren't significantly higher priced than similar alternatives? I don't even know why I'm replying here if you really don't know your parents could have bought an Android device that also works and is also a "serious phone" for half the price.
- muninn_ 10y agoNope. Don't think I made that claim anywhere. What Android device could they have bought for half the price?
- 55555 10y agoYou are definitely middle or upper class.
- muninn_ 10y agoThis is true. And?
- vacri 10y agoA colleague of mine bought a macbook pro for nearly $3k. When he found out about the touchbar, he cancelled the order and looked for other options. I pointed him at a decent Thinkpad X1 Carbon for about $2000, at which point he said "no, that's so expensive!" When pushed on the point that he just willingly spent more than that on the apple laptop, he said "yeah, but when you use one, people know you're using a quality laptop". Yes, to this man at least, status was worth almost a grand.