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Is it even an actual status symbol, or is that just meme? FWIW, personally I've never met anyone who cared one way or another. Just heard people online say that
by abracadaniel 3y ago
Is it even an actual status symbol, or is that just meme? FWIW, personally I've never met anyone who cared one way or another. Just heard people online say that others do. Similarly I can’t find anyone claiming they themselves see it as a status symbol.
- SeanAnderson 3y agohttps://www.wsj.com/articles/why-apples-imessage-is-winning-teens-dread-the-green-text-bubble-11641618009 https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-apples-imessage-is-winning-...
- talldatethrow 3y agoI'm 38 but date girls in their 20s. I would say that every single girl I've talked to has at one point mentioned/joked that I use an android. You can make of that what you will based on your world view. In my opinion, it is absolutely a slight negative to overcome. Tall +10 points. Fun cool car +5 points. Android -3 points.
- ljm 3y agoYou might consider that you're touching upon your 40s and you've chosen to date people almost 20 years younger than you, so you're just talking about the kids these days and not the attitudes of the people closer in maturity. Only it's the kids these days you're sleeping with.
- MarkMarine 3y agoThis weighting is off. Tall +1000 Cool car 1 Android -5 off the tall points. Need those first.
- talldatethrow 3y agoHah fine fine. But actually since she sees the android usually before the cool car (unless you literally post it), the android will hurt you before she ever gets to see the car. The truth is, once the newness wears off, even when you're tall, the android will be used against you eventually by most women.
- throwaway2037 3y agoWhy is this downvoted? LGTM -- looks good to me.
- stephenr 3y agoHave you considered that the problem is not which phone you choose to use, but the type of women you choose to date? I’m 2 years older than you, and it is frankly astounding and depressing that in your description of how women “view you”, it’s all superficial and materialistic factors. Maybe if you dated women who care more about your personality and less about what brand phone you use, you’d have more fulfilling relationships?
- talldatethrow 3y agoYou're 40. Unless you're also dating 30 and below, it's very possible you've completely missed the generation that started dating on social media, dating apps once they went mainstream (although I started on sparkmatch!), and texted constantly in the getting to know you phase.
- stephenr 3y agoI hate to be the one to break it to you mate but being overly concerned with superficial and material things isn't some new phenomenon created by smart phones or social media.
- lacrimacida 3y agoIts not a new phenomenon but Im sure it was exacerbated by it.
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoAgreed. Making your users appear obnoxious to adjacent non-users is a marketing strategy that only works if you're Apple-sized, and being Apple-sized is a new phenomenon.
- inferiorhuman 3y agoTo be fair, based on the comments here Android users seem to be pretty good at being obnoxious all on their own. Like the one guy who swears up and down iMessage creates incels.
- callalex 3y agoYou have a veeeery skewed sample population there and probably shouldn’t be drawing too many conclusions from such a small minority.
- gcanyon 3y agoCurious why you don't switch to iOS since it's obviously impeding a goal you have.
- talldatethrow 3y agoI never said what my goals were.
- throwaway2037 3y agoWomen under 30 from wealthy countries definitely care.
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoQuestioned "I've never met anyone who cared one way or another..."