European iPhone owners are being shown a new pop-up screen listing alternatives to the Safari browser. The developers of the browsers shown on that screen are torn about the user experience.
Apple is a garbage company. If you buy their phones for anything other than iMessage cult needs, it is on you. Buy the cheapest worst iPhone as secondary and keep a main Android phone, if your social life has such a requirement, otherwise respect yourself and buy Android phones.
I’m no fan of apple as a company, but I used android phones for a long time. Mostly because I didn’t want to jump on the apple train. But once I changed jobs and needed to be on my phone a lot more often, I switched to apple for the battery life. I was stuck carrying around an external battery with my android phones. Also, the longevity of the hardware. I’m still on an old iPhone and it still mostly looks and still operates as if it were a more current gen. I always buy used, and I would go through an android phone every year to two years or so. I changed to an apple phone about four years ago and I still have the same one.
I get it, the weird thing I only recently learned about iMessage being some status symbol for teenagers or whatever? That’s fuckin dumb. But there are reasons beyond stupid ones to use apple stuff. Fuck the company, though. I mean…fuck Samsung. And google. Fuck pretty much all companies. But brand loyalty for anything other than fitting your requirements in the product is weird.
The battery life difference pretty much went away several Android versions ago (also when hardware improved).
But, yea, that’s partly why my work phone is an iPhone. I can’t use it for anything but work stuff, and it’s managed by them anyway, so no benefit to using Android for work.
It “just works” for the fundamentals…and that’s what many people want.
The sole reason for getting an iPhone when you get a “job” is to appease colleagues using this fake societal status currency and to show the world that you have “levelled up” in life. There is no longevity or battery life reasoning for it. It is all sugarcoating nonsense. My friends and family do not even have iMessage needs in India, and this is exactly what goes on. Your “fuck XYZ” is also just posturing to hide that fact, like it or not. The moment all your “important” colleagues have newer iPhone models, you will sell this one and get new shiny one to try and keep up with the Joneses.
Um. I dunno what to tell you. I went through two android phones when I started the job. This was back when the screens were only really big. So maybe that was contributing more. But I couldn’t make it though half of the day before both android phones were dying. I can tell you as a person who exclusively used android phones since I had a smart phone (with one, maybe two exceptions I got as hand-me-downs), I’ve never felt any sort of “social pressure” to switch to an iPhone. This is an entirely new concept, because smart phones came out the year I graduated high school, pretty much. And I had never experienced it. Ever.
So are you sure this is a real thing? Not just one of those internet things that people swear they heard someone else say they knew someone who experienced it? Because I’ve been there for pretty much the whole thing. But maybe I aged out of that kind of stupid status shit and this only happens to kids in high school. Because I truly can’t imagine it happening anywhere else. Though I’ve never worked in an office setting, adults acting like clique-y it’s schoolers seem to flock to office spaces, so maybe that’s another reason why I’ve never had this happen to me.
Either way, don’t tell me why I got an iPhone. Who tf are you
Apple is a garbage company. If you buy their phones for anything other than iMessage cult needs, it is on you. Buy the cheapest worst iPhone as secondary and keep a main Android phone, if your social life has such a requirement, otherwise respect yourself and buy Android phones.
I’m no fan of apple as a company, but I used android phones for a long time. Mostly because I didn’t want to jump on the apple train. But once I changed jobs and needed to be on my phone a lot more often, I switched to apple for the battery life. I was stuck carrying around an external battery with my android phones. Also, the longevity of the hardware. I’m still on an old iPhone and it still mostly looks and still operates as if it were a more current gen. I always buy used, and I would go through an android phone every year to two years or so. I changed to an apple phone about four years ago and I still have the same one.
I get it, the weird thing I only recently learned about iMessage being some status symbol for teenagers or whatever? That’s fuckin dumb. But there are reasons beyond stupid ones to use apple stuff. Fuck the company, though. I mean…fuck Samsung. And google. Fuck pretty much all companies. But brand loyalty for anything other than fitting your requirements in the product is weird.
The battery life difference pretty much went away several Android versions ago (also when hardware improved).
But, yea, that’s partly why my work phone is an iPhone. I can’t use it for anything but work stuff, and it’s managed by them anyway, so no benefit to using Android for work.
It “just works” for the fundamentals…and that’s what many people want.
The sole reason for getting an iPhone when you get a “job” is to appease colleagues using this fake societal status currency and to show the world that you have “levelled up” in life. There is no longevity or battery life reasoning for it. It is all sugarcoating nonsense. My friends and family do not even have iMessage needs in India, and this is exactly what goes on. Your “fuck XYZ” is also just posturing to hide that fact, like it or not. The moment all your “important” colleagues have newer iPhone models, you will sell this one and get new shiny one to try and keep up with the Joneses.
Um. I dunno what to tell you. I went through two android phones when I started the job. This was back when the screens were only really big. So maybe that was contributing more. But I couldn’t make it though half of the day before both android phones were dying. I can tell you as a person who exclusively used android phones since I had a smart phone (with one, maybe two exceptions I got as hand-me-downs), I’ve never felt any sort of “social pressure” to switch to an iPhone. This is an entirely new concept, because smart phones came out the year I graduated high school, pretty much. And I had never experienced it. Ever.
So are you sure this is a real thing? Not just one of those internet things that people swear they heard someone else say they knew someone who experienced it? Because I’ve been there for pretty much the whole thing. But maybe I aged out of that kind of stupid status shit and this only happens to kids in high school. Because I truly can’t imagine it happening anywhere else. Though I’ve never worked in an office setting, adults acting like clique-y it’s schoolers seem to flock to office spaces, so maybe that’s another reason why I’ve never had this happen to me.
Either way, don’t tell me why I got an iPhone. Who tf are you