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I think I'm better off without such vapid people as friends. None of my friends with iphones have ever complained about me having an android, nor can I even im

I think I'm better off without such vapid people as friends. None of my friends with iphones have ever complained about me having an android, nor can I even imagine them doing something like that. Bullying somebody for their consumer choices is far beyond the pale. You may as well say that not owning a BMW will lose you potential friends because some BMW drivers will sneer at you. Maybe that's true, but who's loss is that really?

DrBenCarson 3y ago
It’s not explicit. It’s the added friction that places you a bit outside the “inner circle.” Can’t FaceTime? Oh I’ll call you later. Can’t watch the video I sent to the group? I’ll show you later. Little things add up. Now you’re missing inside jokes, impromptu plans, etc.
- lapetitejort 3y ago
  I took a picture of a car driving away from a hit and run. The victim asked for the picture, but because I couldn't airdrop it, he'd rather just write down the license plate. I offered to text or email but he refused. A small amount of friction caused him to miss out on potential evidence.
  - George83728 3y ago
    > I offered to text or email So because you weren't an asshole, you were willing to adapt to his use of android. Doesn't that illustrate my point? People who aren't assholes are willing to be flexible. If you had insisted on airdrop or nothing, that would be different. > but he refused It sounds like he didn't think the picture was important and only wanted the license plate number. This isn't an android/iphone matter at all.
    - lapetitejort 3y ago
      My inadvertent lack of detail leads to an interesting misunderstanding. I am the android user. So in the iPhone user's case, it was airdrop or nothing. The picture was important enough to ask for but not important enough to spend an extra thirty seconds dictating a email address. The picture has more detail than just the license plate. It also had the car make, model, condition, road, position, and metadata. However, I'm not sure the legality (chain of custody, etc) of someone's hastily shot picture of a car driving when dealing with a hit-and-run. Better to have and not need though.
  - DANmode 3y ago
    Darwinism.
amalter 3y ago
It's not as "vapid" as you imagine. As an example; =maybe you have a family/friend group chat of 8 members and you're planning a birthday party or an event. If everyone is in the ecosystem, you can seamless share notes, todo's, hi-res pictures, videos, locations, etc. Since for whatever reason your family has no idea what Signal/Telegram/WhatsApp are - you take the one person that's not on iMessages (and so preventing the group from using the tools) out of the group and say "Make sure to update so and so on the Notes here" or something. It's a practical decision. Often, that one Android user is the only one on Signal or WhatsApp. So to share pictures, you make a group of everyone on iMessage and send the videos and album over, and then send a separate WhatsApp to that person. And sometimes you accidentally forget to send that seperate message. The right answer is to all agree on a fully featured messaging app (For most non-US that's WhatsApp), or for the default messaging to be upgraded. Then you get to RCS - which Google is now pushing, after going through a dozen (or two?) of their own attempts to lock users in with a bewildering array of conflicting messaging apps. Apple should support it, although it's a bit rich to see Google try to "shame" Apple into it only because the failed at their execution.
- DANmode 3y ago
  > Since for whatever reason your family has no idea what Signal/Telegram/WhatsApp are The reason is lack of interest in the details of their very important daily-use tools, instead defaulting to what they are handed. Happens for many reasons, but none have ever been compelling enough to me to not care about what goes into my vehicle, communications, housing etc and then complain afterward that I didn't know.

DrBenCarson 3y ago

It’s not explicit. It’s the added friction that places you a bit outside the “inner circle.” Can’t FaceTime? Oh I’ll call you later. Can’t watch the video I sent to the group? I’ll show you later. Little things add up. Now you’re missing inside jokes, impromptu plans, etc.

lapetitejort 3y ago
I took a picture of a car driving away from a hit and run. The victim asked for the picture, but because I couldn't airdrop it, he'd rather just write down the license plate. I offered to text or email but he refused. A small amount of friction caused him to miss out on potential evidence.
- George83728 3y ago
  > I offered to text or email So because you weren't an asshole, you were willing to adapt to his use of android. Doesn't that illustrate my point? People who aren't assholes are willing to be flexible. If you had insisted on airdrop or nothing, that would be different. > but he refused It sounds like he didn't think the picture was important and only wanted the license plate number. This isn't an android/iphone matter at all.
  - lapetitejort 3y ago
    My inadvertent lack of detail leads to an interesting misunderstanding. I am the android user. So in the iPhone user's case, it was airdrop or nothing. The picture was important enough to ask for but not important enough to spend an extra thirty seconds dictating a email address. The picture has more detail than just the license plate. It also had the car make, model, condition, road, position, and metadata. However, I'm not sure the legality (chain of custody, etc) of someone's hastily shot picture of a car driving when dealing with a hit-and-run. Better to have and not need though.
- DANmode 3y ago
  Darwinism.

amalter 3y ago

It's not as "vapid" as you imagine. As an example; =maybe you have a family/friend group chat of 8 members and you're planning a birthday party or an event. If everyone is in the ecosystem, you can seamless share notes, todo's, hi-res pictures, videos, locations, etc. Since for whatever reason your family has no idea what Signal/Telegram/WhatsApp are - you take the one person that's not on iMessages (and so preventing the group from using the tools) out of the group and say "Make sure to update so and so on the Notes here" or something. It's a practical decision. Often, that one Android user is the only one on Signal or WhatsApp. So to share pictures, you make a group of everyone on iMessage and send the videos and album over, and then send a separate WhatsApp to that person. And sometimes you accidentally forget to send that seperate message. The right answer is to all agree on a fully featured messaging app (For most non-US that's WhatsApp), or for the default messaging to be upgraded. Then you get to RCS - which Google is now pushing, after going through a dozen (or two?) of their own attempts to lock users in with a bewildering array of conflicting messaging apps. Apple should support it, although it's a bit rich to see Google try to "shame" Apple into it only because the failed at their execution.

DANmode 3y ago
> Since for whatever reason your family has no idea what Signal/Telegram/WhatsApp are The reason is lack of interest in the details of their very important daily-use tools, instead defaulting to what they are handed. Happens for many reasons, but none have ever been compelling enough to me to not care about what goes into my vehicle, communications, housing etc and then complain afterward that I didn't know.