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Too poor to flex with sports cars, gotta go into debt to flex with phone

Using money to flex at all is dumb. While everyone's out here flexing, I'll actually be retiring at some point.

Midrange Androids have been good for their price range for a while now, and more than capable of handling what the vast majority of people would use them for. What the vast majority of apps are designed for. Like I struggled to think of something that a mid-range Android phone actually can't do.

Yet there's this bizarre stigma around them from iPhone and higher end Android users.

It's entirely about aesthetics. Higher end phones tend to have a bit more polish to them, but only on the surface. It's like buying a suped up sports car for your daily commute. If it makes you happy, great. But staring down your nose at the person who has an affordable sedan for getting to work just makes you look like a moron.

My bubbles are purple and gray!

My bubbles can be any color I want them to be and I change them weekly according to my mood.

On Android, you can make the bubbles any color you want.

‘course, people would get over color pretty quickly.

By default with no prior coordination, iPhonies expect:

• High-quality photos/videos
• Renamable group chats
• Typing indicators
• Read receipts
• One-click group audio/video calls
• Shared names & contact photos
• Stickers
• Screen sharing
• Message reactions (good improvement, Android, here)

They can also expect:

• Use over WiFi, free internationally
• Apple Pay & iMessage app integration
• Messaging from other devices or via voice
• Encryption

If you’re not in North America, remember, we haven’t all agreed it’s easy to use What’sZuck or secure to use Signal. Convincing users to adopt a particular messenger is work for the more technical, the more opinionated - and whoever convinced you to download one app may not have convinced that girl at the bar to download the same one.

Apple is aware kids get left out of group chats in the US, but lets them get bullied for profit. Support next-generation interoperable messaging Tim! The collective time and mental power exerted on evaluating different messengers, remembering which group chat is on which platform, and on this debate must be staggering.

This is just proof that amaricans will always see color

Me too cos who TF uses SMS in 2023?

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that some people who have iPhones as status symbols can't afford to replace them if the screen breaks. Whereas someone who doesn't care about brands can easily swap a broken Android for another budget phone.

iPhone 12 and later uses what they call “Ceramic Shield”, which is supposedly 4 times tougher than glass according to Apple. It’s manufactured by Corning, the same company that makes the Gorilla Glass used on many Android devices. Maybe the promise of tougher glass convinces some people to not use a screen protector or something? I personally always use a screen protector, no matter how tough a company promises their glass is, lol.

A large part of the problem may be that replacing the screen on an iPhone isn’t as easy as it is for many other devices. Apple will charge you $362 for them to replace the screen, and having the screen replaced “unofficially” by a third party is also expensive. Performing the screen repair requires the repair person to have access to expensive equipment to avoid Apple’s “security” features that give you popups if it detects that you’ve changed the display. Because it can be so expensive to replace the screen on an iPhone, many people just don’t do it.

Nothing to argue there, but I still prefer android over that iOS shit.

Company fanboys any sector are such cringe dipshits.

Look into grapheneos, it has almost the same features as vanilla google android. The few things it lacks are google auto (i don't drive), google pay (i don't wanna pay shit anyway)

I miss my Pure.

Same

I envy you! I also had a Samsung Galaxy Note II secondary phone running postmarketOS until fairly recently, but the experience was pretty unusable and I put free and open-source Android (AOSP) back on it approximately 1.5 months ago.