It's so strange that this is even a thing

If someone dumps me on a first date over my phone then so be it. It actually looks like dodging a bullet.

Men, proudly drag that battered and cracked android phone out on the first date, it's a litmus test for shallow people, apparently.

I went on a first date with a girl I met from work. She farted loud enough to be heard over drunken yelling and music in the steakhouse we were in, immediately after saying "I don't get embarassed".

In a couple of weeks, we will have been together for 16 years. We've been married for 14 years. We cook together every evening, we hold each other whenever we are in the same room for more than five minutes, and on the rare nights where we aren't taking each other's clothes off, we fall asleep wrapped around each other. I would have missed out on a perfect relationship if I had judged her for a phone.

the best move is to show your android phone in your profile pics so you don't get trapped with someone so shallow

Holy shit I've got some boomer energy, here:

The reason to not take out your phone isn't because someone might hate on your phone.

You don't take out your phone on a date so that you can be giving that person your full attention.

Let's face it: If they were that superficial, they wouldn't have dated me to begin with.

I don’t think I would want to date a woman who cares what phone I use.

Alternate take: Buy an Android phone and use your green bubble to weed trash people out of your life.

Use your android without concern, any girl that cares about your phone that much can self-curve herself and save you problems down the road.

Counter-suggestion (and this applies to everyone with an Android regardless of gender dating anyone else regardless of gender), do use your Android phone in front of your date because that weeds out psychos who would reject you over not owning their preferred product.

These men dodged a bullet.

Better advice: use an android phone to filter out the reactive dipshits.

This is a feature of android, not a bug. If someone is that shallow and can't consider the possible motivations of using a GASP different phone, they would be a really bad partner.

If a woman is that shallow and materialistic then the guy is dodging a bullet. Anyhow, it's a weird thing to say since "android phone" could mean literally anything from a basic $100 smartphone all the way up to a $50,000 Vertu diamond and white alligator skin. i.e. it could mean the guy is sensible with his money or even more shallow and materialistic than the girl could ever dream to be.

I think all this tells us is that Katarina here hangs out exclusively with basic bitches

I'm 100% okay with being rejected for my Android phone. My dick doesn't fit in women that shallow.

Shit advice. If my date dismisses me because of the phone I use, they are not worth pursuing.

If you are that desperate to get laid that you start tippy-toeing, consider paying a whore. Better for your mental health.

I feel like using it on the first date is actually better, as a form of litmus test to find out of your date is trash (bad).

Does this really matter that much in the US?. Here in the Netherlands about 70% of people had an android phone in 2022. Nobody really cares what you use, as long as you're happy using it.

Men, do yourself a favour.

If a girl ghosts you because of the phone you use, she's clearly too shallow to bother with, and it's worth ghosting her back.

Girls, do yourself a favour.

If you've got a problem that a guy uses a 'droid, you may want to reconsider your priorities.

Yeah, this isn't a thing for anyone worth dating.

Why would even want to be with someone so shallow in the first place ? If they ghost over a phone then good riddance.

Is this a thing in the US? Here the only time i care is when i dont have my charging cable with me and im looking for one (although this should be changing)

Sounds like it's just gonna save me some time. If she's gonna be that basic, I have better things to do.

All my bitches use Signal

Use it right away and dodge a bullet. By the third date she will expect you to buy her $600 wheels for her mac.

Nah. I'm too old for this highschool nonsense.

Sounds like the guys didged a bullet to me.

I had a guy I briefly worked with say he didn't text android phones. I laughed at him and told him that was the lamest thing I've ever heard. I was happy to never have to do anything with him.

Does anyone know the diagnosis code for her mental disorder?

That a good filter for shallow jerks

They curved the perfect man? Is he no longer straight?

This is america.

I personally would pull up with the 12.9" iPad Pro to assert dominance.

Guess that’s like those dating profiles that people post online once in a while where the woman demands a height, weight, and income before they even consider talking to a man. At least that’s up front and honest, even if it’s shallow.

I really don’t understand the social cache of an iPhone. It’s overpriced tech. I’d rather someone say right off the bat that they won’t talk to somebody who doesn’t have an iPhone. No need to deal with someone so superficial and interested in wasting money on shit specifically because they want it for showing off how much money they spent.

i didn't know you could use androids as fuckwit detectors in the USA. Good to know if i'm ever travelling there though....

I mean if your looking to date a high schooler this is probably a factor you'd consider. No one cares about your phone, at most just that you have one to be able to contact you.

Dodged a bullet, I'd say. Anyone who is remotely paying attention to what phone someone's using on a date is....not someone I want to be around.

Tell me youre a mouth breathing moron without telling me youre a mouth breathing moron.

Im equally likely to curb you if you use an iphone. You demonstrate herd mentality and that you dont understand technology. You spent $2k to use instagram and tiktok. Wow.

The other day I got unmatched by a girl on a dating app because she wanted my WhatsApp and not a phone number. We literally had already agreed to go on a first date and then she's like "I don't use my phone much so you need to use WhatsApp" and I'm like "I don't have WhatsApp, here's my cell number: XXX-XXX-XXXX" and then she disappeared from my matches on Hinge lol

That's it. I'm going to whip it out on the first date.

Men, you've just dodged an ICBM.

Maybe if you’re 15.

That's great! I wouldn't date a woman who'd dismiss a person based on the phone they use. Saves time, really.

Two of us can play this game, if she ain't using linux or some BSD I'm leaving (but not after installing minimal gentoo and leave it without an internet connection on all her devices for her to figure out)

I am so tired of hearing this bs. Android cost just as much, if not more than apple (iPhone 15 cost $800, Google pixel 8 cost $700 and yes that's an Android phone), we have just as good a camera as iPhone, our designs are ever evolving meanwhile iPhone is stuck in the past by at least 4 years, if not more, and the only reason videos look like shit over text is because of the weird formatting the company put in. Please, for the love of all that is holy, explain to us what is so appealing about iphone?

This makes me want to migrate back to Android. This is the kind of woman that will be crying in her Tik Toks about being single at 35 in her car at Applebees.

You'll basic

That's the problem Katarina. You're hanging out with stupid people.

Fuck that, if she doesn't like my neofetch flex she's a -redacted-

If you curve a good person because of the phone they use then THEY dodged a bullet, not the phone elitists

This isn't a thing, especially when you can barely tell the difference by looking at the phone alone. It's going to be like 90% phone case, and most phones are practically very little bezel screens so you can't tell from the front.

"I prefer a phone that lasts as long as I do"

Pull out your Nokia 3310.

Real women don't care. Some of us even prefer others have Android

always knew that my blackberry will get me laid

I have owned both Androids and iPhones and they both suck. I should probably look into the fringe brands.

I'd never judge someone for their stupid phone. Hell, if it's some ancient Razr flip phone or keyboarded BlackBerry type thing, I'll be impressed.

We're all in this boring dystopia together, dammit.

I got a pine phone is that k?

This makes me want one of those rotary cell phones, just to see what happens.

My Lineage OS phone is much more secure than your dumbass iPhone.

I might discriminate against a guy with an iPhone. Maybe. But only if he was on it all the time while we were out.

curve this waves fairphone

only because pinephones are barely usable and librems insanely priced! Or you can damn well believe I'd have a native linux phone.

Avoid all this nonsense by getting a Palm Pilot.

Was it this phone: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/the-maga-targeted-freedom-phone-has-a-breathtaking-amount-of-red-flags/

I'd probably walk out if I saw that thing. Not sure they ever sold any though.

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Nobody actually does this.

Women with Android phones are hot af, just sayin'.

Nah show your weird tech worship res flags on the first date please

Is this an American thing? I've never heard of this (in Canada).

This isn't real, but would be a great acid test.

I wouldn't want to have anything to do with a woman that shallow.

My fiancé had a Pixel 3 when we first starting dating, when the 6 was already out by then. Tbh dgaf, he's smart and a phone doesn't equate to a good personality.

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Katarina, @Kkatarinako

Men, do yourself a favor:

If you own an Android phone,

Wait at least three dates before using it in front of her.

I can't even count on my both hands

How many stories I've heard from women

That curved the perfect man just because he had an android phone

i use an iPhone and am an active Linux user.

Who's 'curving' who?

I thought they could already tell because we're green in text messages or something

It must be kinda weird being a total bimbo

So... anyone want to talk about your dating stories on !android@lemmy.world?

Uuuuh I got married to an Android user as one myself?

what ?

Is that even a thing outside of the US?

This almost feels like a lie women tell about other women so that the person lying seems mature and reasonable in comparison.

Lol I'd look sideways at a dude with an iPhone.

What is "curved the perfect man"?

Dogging bitch bullets.

Every girl with an iPhone that Ive dated eventually gets a Pixel and never looks back.

Lots of folk in this thread taking this way too seriously

Mostly joking but since we're on the subject

Huh?

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