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Simple: almost everybody I know uses an iPhone. Without an iPhone, I can't FaceTime with my family and friends. Without an iPhone, I'm discriminated against am

Simple: almost everybody I know uses an iPhone. Without an iPhone, I can't FaceTime with my family and friends. Without an iPhone, I'm discriminated against among young people because of green text in iMessage. Without an iPhone I can't do account sharing for all the digital things my family uses. And those sorts of reasons are just from me as a consumer. As a developer, more than half my customers (in the USA) have an iPhone. I literally cannot do business or provide apps to them without going through Apple.

endisneigh 6y ago
I mean you could just get your family and friends to switch to Android too, right? Presumably they're using an iPhone because they find the experience to be superior. Given that iPhones are more experience I would assume this to be the case. I'm curious what your proposed solution to this problem is.
- wayneftw 6y ago
  > I mean you could just get your family and friends to switch to Android too, right? A completely socially clueless person might try that, sure. > Presumably they're using an iPhone because they find the experience to be superior. [Because they're more expensive...] They're not more expensive. I actually can't find a $299 Android which has the same specs as an iPhone 8 that I got for that price. Also, where's the $2000 iPhone that competes with the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2?? So they're cheaper in many cases but even more importantly, Apple has done some excellent marketing to position themselves as a premium brand and most people in my upward/upper-ish middle class circles are extremely susceptible to that kind of signaling. Personally, I can take or leave either one of them. I have to use both for testing and I do support for people in my life all the time and they both definitely have their drawbacks.

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Simple: almost everybody I know uses an iPhone. Without an iPhone, I can't FaceTime with my family and friends. Without an iPhone, I'm discriminated against am

by wayneftw 6y ago

endisneigh 6y ago
I mean you could just get your family and friends to switch to Android too, right? Presumably they're using an iPhone because they find the experience to be superior. Given that iPhones are more experience I would assume this to be the case. I'm curious what your proposed solution to this problem is.
- wayneftw 6y ago
  > I mean you could just get your family and friends to switch to Android too, right? A completely socially clueless person might try that, sure. > Presumably they're using an iPhone because they find the experience to be superior. [Because they're more expensive...] They're not more expensive. I actually can't find a $299 Android which has the same specs as an iPhone 8 that I got for that price. Also, where's the $2000 iPhone that competes with the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2?? So they're cheaper in many cases but even more importantly, Apple has done some excellent marketing to position themselves as a premium brand and most people in my upward/upper-ish middle class circles are extremely susceptible to that kind of signaling. Personally, I can take or leave either one of them. I have to use both for testing and I do support for people in my life all the time and they both definitely have their drawbacks.