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Buy him an iPhone. Kids are assholes and $300 will keep him from being a target here. Adults do this too, btw.

by mywittyname 4y ago

rejectfinite 4y ago
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- mywittyname 4y ago
  I've gotten it from friends and family too. It's just one of those things that has become culturally appropriate to tease people about. And kids are assholes, so if they can get away with teasing somebody about anything, they are going to turn the dial up to 11 on it.
red-iron-pine 4y ago
There are way, way better ways to flex than an iPhone tho. Those aren't available to a 12 year old. i.e. they can talk shit all day about my Pixel phone, whatever. I'll ponder why it matters to them as I drove home in my 7-series.
ashwagary 4y ago
I completely disagree. He should learn to embrace the android and whatever attributes it has that makes it a great device to own. Also wouldnt hurt to buy him a Ferrari and get some hot supermodels to hang out with him from time to time.
hd95489 4y ago
Let’s be honest Apple made it super annoying to deal with android users so I can understand what kids would gravitate to being assholes
- atonse 4y ago
  How so? How much of this is just SMS? Is it Apple’s fault that SMS doesn’t have group chat, etc? People forget that the iPhone only had SMS the first 3-4 years of its existence. It was a green bubble from day one. So it’s not like they’ve planned this from day one. They needed to differentiate between SMS and iMessage so they started switching colors. I do wonder if anyone has checked the shade of green though. I bet you they’ve made it subtly more visually annoying. Also, yes RCS exists but the feature set is spotty across carriers and it’s not end to end encrypted.
DoItToMe81 4y ago
300 dollars won't stop him from being a target. Kids don't bully out of being huge fans of Apple, it runs deeper. They've already decided he's a target.
- Nextgrid 4y ago
  I'm not sure how much of it is "bullying" and how much of it is just teasing because people would like to invite him in various activities reliant on Apple-only features but can't?

Buy him an iPhone. Kids are assholes and $300 will keep him from being a target here. Adults do this too, btw.

rejectfinite 4y ago

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mywittyname 4y ago
I've gotten it from friends and family too. It's just one of those things that has become culturally appropriate to tease people about. And kids are assholes, so if they can get away with teasing somebody about anything, they are going to turn the dial up to 11 on it.

red-iron-pine 4y ago

There are way, way better ways to flex than an iPhone tho. Those aren't available to a 12 year old. i.e. they can talk shit all day about my Pixel phone, whatever. I'll ponder why it matters to them as I drove home in my 7-series.

ashwagary 4y ago

I completely disagree. He should learn to embrace the android and whatever attributes it has that makes it a great device to own. Also wouldnt hurt to buy him a Ferrari and get some hot supermodels to hang out with him from time to time.

hd95489 4y ago

Let’s be honest Apple made it super annoying to deal with android users so I can understand what kids would gravitate to being assholes

atonse 4y ago
How so? How much of this is just SMS? Is it Apple’s fault that SMS doesn’t have group chat, etc? People forget that the iPhone only had SMS the first 3-4 years of its existence. It was a green bubble from day one. So it’s not like they’ve planned this from day one. They needed to differentiate between SMS and iMessage so they started switching colors. I do wonder if anyone has checked the shade of green though. I bet you they’ve made it subtly more visually annoying. Also, yes RCS exists but the feature set is spotty across carriers and it’s not end to end encrypted.

DoItToMe81 4y ago

300 dollars won't stop him from being a target. Kids don't bully out of being huge fans of Apple, it runs deeper. They've already decided he's a target.

Nextgrid 4y ago
I'm not sure how much of it is "bullying" and how much of it is just teasing because people would like to invite him in various activities reliant on Apple-only features but can't?