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Developer goodwill is not really that essential to a lifestyle accessories brand.
by supernes 7y ago
Developer goodwill is not really that essential to a lifestyle accessories brand.
- scarface74 7y agoRight because 50% of the US mobile market only buys a phone because it’s an “accessory”.
- wetpaws 7y agoNot sure if it is a sarcasm or not.
- scarface74 7y agoOf course it’s sarcasm. It’s just like people who sat that the iPhone is a “status symbol”. How can something be a status symbol when 50% of smart phone users have it in the US and that anyone on any of the four major carriers can buy one an interest free 24 month loan. Geeks can’t stand to face the fact that people who can afford to have a choice, overwhelmingly shy away from Android.
- orangecat 7y agoHow can something be a status symbol when 50% of smart phone users have it in the US It's more that Apple has gotten people to view anything other than the iPhone as low status, e.g. green bubbles.
- scarface74 7y agoSo Apple has brainwasheded people for 20 years? Geeks have been saying that Apple was a status symbol since the iPod. As far as iMessage, it couldn't possibly be that Google has had four or five failed attempts at a messaging platform?
- askafriend 7y agoCheaper, less beautiful, less premium objects are inherently lower status. What's your point? That's how it's always been for any objects. Cars, cheese, wine, etc. Humans are inherently status-seeking creatures and they display their status in a myriad of ways. Apple just happens to make premium products for a premium segment of customers - and there's nothing wrong with that.
- FpUser 7y ago>...interest free 24 month loan Getting a loan to buy a friggin phone? It does look like a status symbol to me.
- scarface74 7y agoThey were called “contracts with free phones” before. Why wouldn’t you break them up into payments if you can interest free? They don’t even show up on your credit report as a loan. They offer “loans” on $100 Android phones.
- FpUser 7y agoI'v always paid in full for my phones. No contract. Granted my phones are cheap as the only thing I care about them doing anything other then phone calls is off-line GPS software and cycling computer. My current $200 Canadian Redmi Note 5 does this just fine and has quite decent camera as well. Do not even have data plan on a friggin thing.
- scarface74 7y agoWell, you are in the minority. When discussing things in a public forum, isn’t it better to use longitudinal trends when we have them instead of anecdotes?
- FpUser 7y agoI was just expressing my own opinion about "status symbol". Why would I care about being in line with whatever "longitudinal trends" there are
- scarface74 7y agoWell. An opinion about something “being a status symbol” should be able to come up with some basis in fact. By definition, a “status symbol” is something that you buy to show that you have more “status” than the majority of people because you can buy something that most people can’t. If the majority of people can get a product, how can it be a status symbol?
- supernes 7y agoPeople would still buy iPhones even if Apple decided to purge 99% of apps from their store.
- ahbyb 7y agoWhich would make sense since 99% of apps probably have fewer than 100 downloads each. (Yes I know this is not your point, just a little joke)
- ehvatum 7y agoI continue using iPhones only because Android seems so much worse. Text messages in various character sets work fine on my iPhone, but Android users still get garbage if I include a Cyrillic snippet. блять!
- RandomTroll123 7y agoSame as design. Good design don't prevent design logic bugs. https://imgur.com/gallery/LFw2Ob2 https://imgur.com/gallery/LFw2Ob2