Can someone please explain to me the appeal iPhone has to tech

It's a luxury, premium product.

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>>61584754
Or rather just apple technology in general since the new macbooks have an awful keyboard and touchpad.

>>61584754
Conspicuous consumption.
See also Veblen goods.

>>61584754
- It's a phone
- It just werks
- Has more useful apps and typically apps are of better quality
- normies don't care for anything more

>>61584754
IPhones are bought mainly because it is seen as a staus symbol. It makes poor stupid people feel rich. The same goes for Samsung phones.

>>61584760
Not really, pic related.

>>61584780
>It's a phone
Like any Android or windows handset

>Just werks
Like any Android or windows handset

>Has more useful apps
Such as? Compared to?


>>61584789
Yes but unlike Apple, Samsung actually makes good looking flagship phone that don't have 60% screen to body ratio and a 720p screen.

I own an iPhone 6.

Ask me anything.

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>>61584800
Forgot pic.

Any phone can look as premium as iPhone, if not more so.

Even cheap Redmi phones that go for a tenth the price of an iPhone can look as good.

The only reason I use Android is because I can't afford an iPhone right now.

iTunes on Windows is great, and the phones are solid, simple devices with sure support for at least a few years.

My G4 is awesome, but not as good as an iPhone. Plaina and simple.

>>61584800
>windows handset
So you've really just outed yourself as a autist manchild who has an irrational hatred for Apple...

>>61584800
It still has shitty as TouchWiz though

>>61584754
> little to no malware
> nice screen quality
> waterproof
> nice battery life
> it just werks

>>61584754
I use the iPhone because I don't want a inexpensive phone that offers the most amount of privacy without having to sacrifice the ability to install shit like a banking app. I only use it for that, checking email on the go, and checking the news app. I also use it for Wire, as I have friends that still have a dumb phones and no computers, but have tablets.

That's really all I can think of, and considering Credo (the us phone company that protects your privacy the best, according to EFF) literally gives them away for free (literally no increase to the monthly bill), I ask, "Why not?"

>>61584815
Can you get the fuck off my board?

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>>61584822
>Windows phone doesn't "just werk"
I'm going to have to read your own comment back to you.

>>61584843
>Little to no malware
That's actually a true and valid point.

>Nice screen quality
Nah, come back when they've got OLED quality

>Waterproof
Android has had waterproof phones for years.

>Nice battery life
http://www.gsmarena.com/battery-test.php3 and pic related

>It just werks
I've used apple, Android, and windows phone. I've yet to discover a phone that doesn't "just werk" out the box.

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>>61584754
dude android sux. it doesnt show pictures??

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>>61584820
>Itunes on Windows is great

>>61584754
Who is girl?

>>61584765
Source? So damn fine

Because only 15% of the population has an IQ of 115 or higher; ie intelligent.

>>61584820
>Itunes on windows is great
Well, there's a first time for everything!

>>61584885
> no software fragmentation
> hardware is supported for a long long fucking time
i have an iPad 3 that is 5 years old, works laggy at times but that's 5 fucking years old.

>>61584891
Dude wtf have you done to your phone.

Also I run androids on my computer and I can view images just fine.

>>61585003
Yeah but most people upgrade their iPhone every year or second year on contract...

>>61585018
Not him, but why wouldn't I?

>Cellphone carrier gives away 32GB models for free with 2 year contract.
>After 2 year, get new phone for free, and reset the phone and sell it on ebay for 200 dollars per phone (2 phones).
>Use money + 20 dollars to pay for 6 months of phone service.

>>61585048
So then there's no point in the long support from apple since the only people keeping the iPhone for so long are middle aged people who don't even go online with it. Same reason my mom still uses her Samsung S2. Everything still works, every time I bring up upgrading she just tells me it's a waste of money.

>>61585065
It's long-term support is why people are willing to pay so much for them in the secondhand market.

They pay 200 bucks for the cell phone that lived in a lifeproof case for 2 years, and still get another 3 years of service via an MNVO that will charge them less than a carrier. Both the seller and the buyer win.

Herd mentality.

Nothing else.

Good marketing.

>>61585048
I have no such deals in my area, so I just rely on long term support.

I am a power user yet I use apple, while there are tons of normie apps there aren't many non-normie apps, for example I don't know if there's a proper 4chan app.

>>61584754
It's a status symbol. Normies buy iPhones because they buy for the brand and not the technical specificationa.

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>>61585086
The majority of iPhone buyers don't even understand long term support. They're only in it for the fruit logo.

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Why are girls so obsessed with iPhones? They care about it more than the car you drive..!

>>61585203
Ok. Well, its why I have an iPhone. I can't justify everyone else, only myself. Free with contract, high resale value due to extended support, and, if configured properly, fewer viruses/malware, and much more private.

>>61585211
s-s-sauce...

>>61584841
I've owned the Galaxy S4 and the Galaxy S7. On S4 TouchWiz was shit. On Galaxy S7 it's not that bad.

>>61585234
Everyone does shit differently man. I just buy a cheap chinkphone every year and pass the old one off to my sister or dad.

Xiaomi and Meizu provide security updates even for their older phones so it's not an issue and by 3 years the phone has been decommissioned. Have to say I'm very impressed with battery life of the new Redmi phones recently though, and each phone is roughly 1/6 - 1/5th the cost of the base model iPhone here.

>>61584754
Well I'm an Android developer and my main driver is an iPhone.
While it's most likely because I'm tired of getting shit from Android in my professional life and don't want that to happen in my personal life the reasons I give when asked are:
-the verification process for iOS apps is better as they check the app before posting it on the store. While this is annoying for a developer it's a nice feeling for me as a consumer.
-security is better on iOS.
-support for updates is generally better. Most Android phones don't get supported for 5 years or thereabouts.
-I like the UI better, which is of course subjective
- imagine I'm browsing the net and I get a call. I try to answer but the phone just locked up. I try to move the button and answer but it doesn't move. I've had this happen on Android, never on iOS

>>61584765
>>61584990
>those hands
>female

Thats a man baby

>>61585321
What Android phone you had?

>>61584760
no that's marketing bs. maybe in the early days that was true but android devices can be every bit as good for half the price

>>61585321
>-the verification process for iOS apps is better as they check the app before posting it on the store. While this is annoying for a developer it's a nice feeling for me as a consumer.
there's still a massive amount of garbage apps and games and there are literal scams

https://medium.com/@johnnylin/how-to-make-80-000-per-month-on-the-apple-app-store-bdb943862e88

>It's this thread again

I really should save this as pasta…

iOS is shit, but android is even worse. And if you have a live outside of tinkering with your phone, you get fed up with either having to tinker around with your phone all day or with accepting insane defaults and stupid ideas quite fast.

Just take me and my brother for example. I'm a physics PhD and he has an engineering and programming double MSc, and we both have been gamers and PC nerds since the windows 95 days, when you HAD to tinker with your machine to keep up with the current developments. I even remember BUYING Suse Professional 7.something (internet simply wasn't fast enough to download 3 DVD's worth of linux).
I'm now working in research and write my own algorithms and he's a hired gun costing $1000+ per day to fix companies IT systems.
So yeah, we now a thing or two about computers.
But we both use them as means to an end, and not as the end itself. Meaning: shit has got to work.
And android simply is not there.
I have to do tech support for my gf and my brother has to help our parents, and holy shit, is android a piece of illogical, unstable, ugly and downright retarded shit.
Nothing works like you'd expect to, everything breaks and crashes all the time, updates wreck anything resembling a workflow all the time, it's visually inconsistent and most apps are low quality data sucking traps.
Iphones are primitive simpletons and I don't fucking know why they have a whatever-cores CPU, while being less capable than my 500MHz Symbian phone from back in the day, but at least they are save and not annoying.

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>>61584819
Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Pro looks much better than an iPhone and you can get it for less than $180 now. iPhones are for handlets, if you don't have a 5.5 in screen your phone looks like shit.

Once you go 5.5 in you can't go back.

>>61585465
What is IPhone 7 plus

>>61584820
>iTunes on Windows is great
Wew lad

>>61585463
That said:
Personally, I would prefer Blackberry, but sadly, that's getting less and less usable by the day, as does option number two, windows phone.

>>61585474
800+ dolleridoos

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>>61584820
>>61585003
>>61585086
>LTS
That is just another one of Apple's schemes to get you to come back over and over again for the newest device
Pic related

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>>61585008
idk i been trying to install youtube but androids retarded

>>61585003
I have a Nexus 5 that is almost 4 years old, battery is crappy and it lags from time to time but it's 4 years old.

>>61585388
Hot guy then.

>>61584754
It's a lot simpler than you think anon op

I live in Australia... Everyone I know uses iPhone.. It's just a high quality standard that has spent years dominating the marketplace... Almost as silly starting an argument with someone because they drive a Honda or listen to .mp3

>>61585474
>>61585483

eviscerated. how can iSweaties ever recover?

>>61585321
- imagine I'm browsing the net and I get a call.
>I try to answer but the phone just locked up.
fuck, is this still a problem for Android in 2017?
it's one of the reasons I've stayed away for so long

>>61584754
rest assured that people who get the 7 are actual tech illiterates that would willingly get fucked in the ass just to look good
God, I feel so sorry for those folk...

there are people that look for a phone and nothing more
stuff absent like native file transfer and removable batteries don't bother them as much when they get an infinitely more fluid experience using a phone in general

>>61585465
Only real issue with the rmn3p is the god awful camera.

Zuk Z2 Pro or Mi5s had comparable camera quality to full fledged flagships for less than half the price.

>>61585653
Yeah it's bad, I never use it though because I'm a loser so it's perfect for me.

>>61585513
My Nexus 5 still runs flawlessly after 4 years because it gives me the freedom to fiddle with kernel settings to give me the balance between performance and battery life that I want.

Is it necessary?
No.

Is it nice to have that freedom?
Yes.

>>61584754
Explain why women buy makeup for a retarded amount of money in such a small quantity

>>61585669
Dude just install a better camera app.

Try to find a Google camera apk, takes the best images on my phone but annoyingly video crashes.

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>>61584754
There are no Free As In Freedom smartphone OSes that are feasible for daily use, so you're left with two choices. Neither of them are good, but one is better than the other.

One OS is distributed by an advertising/data mining company who has a vested interest in knowing as much about you as possible, written with no particular hardware in mind, not guaranteed to receive updates in the future.

Another OS is written by a hardware company, with their specific hardware in mind. It cannot be unlocked by outside forces (see all the Jamal threads) and the company has publicly stood up to the US federal gov't to protect the privacy of a literal ISIS terrorist.

I'm ok with giving up SD card readers if it means I can have peace of mind. I don't need gigs of anime and motherfucking video games on my phone. It's a phone.

>>61585728
>There are no Free As In Freedom smartphone OSes that are feasible for daily use, so you're left with two choices. Neither of them are good, but one is better than the other.
Fucking this.
It's just the same with about everything in tech. You can't choose between good and bad, it's always just bad and worse.
Sailfish, WP and Blackberry were supposed to save us from this awful duopoly in phone OSs, but see where they got. Which is a shame, because they all have so many great features and ideas (which in turn got stolen from the big ones and turned into shitty copies of themselves), but now we are stuck between a diarrhea and a hard turd.

>>61585412
I still have 3 Android phones for testing and stuff. I mainly used a OnePlus one before switching to iPhone.
>>61585439
That's true. Yet it's better than the ones on the play store

>>61584754
It's the same with the Dr Dre shit and starbucks. Both are, almost objectively due to their prices, inferior compared to their competitors but they have been marketed in such a way that they are fashion and status symbols. People respond to that.

>>61584754
People buy it for the looks, you can get the idea by checking how many chinkphones are desperately trying to copy their designs including big companies like 1+ and huawei

>>61585929
>copy their designs
Xiaomi outright Ctrl+V'd the physical and OS design lol

>>61585929
there's only so much you can do design-wise with a touchscreen smartphone with minimal bezels and standard internal components etc

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>>61586113
That doesn't mean brands should go out of their way to copy apple.

Lots of phones don't look like the iPhone...

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>>61584760

>>61584754
iPhone 7 user reporting in

Reasons why I personally get them every few years:

>iMessage is honestly really good
I do use a MacBook at work and having to not go on my phone for my messages is also a plus. Aside from that, most of my friends are from other countries with iPhones and it lets me text them for free without the requirement of any extra apps.

>High resale value
Had an iPhone 6 for 2 years, ended up with a 7 Plus earlier this year and resold the iPhone 6 for $350 (was in pristine condition). I also got this phone for around $550 as I do for most iPhones I get

>The phone actually looks really nice
I was never really a huge fan of the majority of Android phones, but some look good too

>No shit malware
I know how to not install garbage applications since I do use Android OS on other technology I have but its nice that my phone is less prone to this crap

>Most productivity apps are actually quite useful


All in all, it really isnt a bad phone. I used to hate Apple for literally no reason 7 years ago but getting the 4 a long time ago did open my eyes to a few nice things about iOS.

>>61586405
I've never seen a piece of Android malware in the 7 years I've owned one.

>Productivity on a phone
>Apps are so much less advanced (see Discord)
>haven't been the camera king for years
>really nice looks
once they removed the antenna lines on the 6 for the 7 it now looks like shit

>>61586465
>>61586405
For me iPhone lost its design appeal after the 5/5s, after that point Android just seemed like the naturally better choice both from an OS and hardware standpoint.

>>61584760
Let's play "Spot the Shill"

>>61584754
>nigger.jpg
Your thread is self explanatory

>>61586582
>Can't read
The fuck is wrong with you? That's clearly not the filename.

>>61586606
it's an image of a nigger and the file extension is .jpg fag

>>61586676
>>61586582
>niggers xddd
wook at me im a big boy now

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Green bubbles are not a meme and a lot of people just want girls.

>>61586703
>Obsessed with bubble's
What kind of paedophile chooses to buy a phone just for that?
Disgusting.

>>61586701
t. sjw millennial bernie kid

>>61586726
>bernie kid
america isn't the centre of the world you lardass

>>61586703
>being such a beta fag that you care about idiotic vapid cunts who would care about bubbles, as if you had a chance with them in the first place

>>61586703
> Green bubbles are not a meme
Your picture proves the opposite.

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>>61586703
I just did a twitter search just with the term "green bubbles" and holy shit. I never thought this was an issue for people.

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>>61584789
Samsung
>I don't have money for iPoo

>>61584815
Why you don't have a job?

>>61585494
no shit, not like I haven't seen this before, it's even worse for android you know.

>>61584754
It's very well advertised and isn't strictly bad. As simple as that.

>>61584754
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8PBrhFN35c

>>61586765
christ, they (apple) made it so that the sms app transparently use the net (whatsapp style) to send messages when wifi is available and talking iphone to iphone, all other phones turn up as an unnappealing green color

>>61586851
For me, at first glance it kind of made sense. You would want to know what got sent as sms since some plans don't have unlimited text (good luck finding one that doesn't have one now).

Does anyone with an iPhone know if you can change the color? Not that it really matters since it's green and blue by default.

>>61586851
Why don't you just got an Android app that does blue messages

>>61586875
it's so they make hot chicks with iphones hate people with android or other non iphone..

>>61586875
it's locked down by applel but it seems they're looking into making an official iMessage for android
>I've heard from little birdies that mockups of iMessage for Android have circulated within the company, with varying UI styles ranging from looking like the iOS Messages app to pure Material Design.1 iMessage for Android may never see the light of day, but the existence of detailed mockups strongly suggests that there's no "of course not" to it.
https://www.imore.com/wheres-imessage-android

there's this hacky workaround where you have to use your own OS X server
https://9to5mac.com/2016/05/03/piemessage-imessage-open-source-android-app/

>>61584841

get a different launcher then

>>61584754
S T A T U S
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which females are all about

>>61584819
>Even cheap Redmi phones that go for a tenth the price of an iPhone can look as good.

it's not how good it looks, it's letting people know you can afford to drop a grand on a phone, even if you can't. that's the sad part - nobody believes that kind of peacock display, but idiots still try it.

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>tfw people like my phone and automatically assume it's expensive.
>"what phone is that?"
The honor 5x
>"the what? Who makes it"
Wah way(huawei)
>...

Every dam time. At least the first impression is nice but then they're all confused and mystified.

it just works. literally, there is nothing that could go wrong with it and troubleshooting is easy af when something go wrong

when people call in with issues, it's mostly their apple id is disabled because those morons try to game the system and did a charge back through their bank and got their card blacklisted

other than that, it's literally the easiest shit to use and even old people knows how to use it

>>61585321
those are mostly bullshit reasons desu
>security and updates
dont really matter because in 5yrs you'll be hopping on the next iphone dildo

>>61585211
It's a trap

>>61585728
>thinking the gubmint thing was anything but a pr stunt
it was probably they who unlocked it off camera or the security is a joke
take your pick

>>61584820
What on earth... You are on /g/, not /b/

>>61586806
Android has this issue?

>>61588193
>>security and updates
>dont really matter because in 5yrs you'll be hopping on the next iphone dildo
Yeah, no.
At least you can keep it for 5 years WITH updates.
How long is the avg update time for android? 2 years?

>>61588170
>It just works
Just like Android then.

>>61585211
>girls

>>61584885
>I've used apple, Android, and windows phone. I've yet to discover a phone that doesn't "just werk" out the box.
Every tried OpenMoko or FirefoxOS?

>>61584754
Steve jobs helped make it and he was like one of the coolest people ever lol

>>61584754
remember that this is the reason why NORMIES like iphones, so don't cry to me about customisation and shit, i know
>ios looks better than android stock (normies don't customise)
>android as a brand, appears on shitty cheap phones as well as high end ones, which depreciates the appeal all round
>apple is like bmw and android is like audi in terms of product spread
>apple is so famous that it has become intuitive to use for many
>status symbol (normies i know irl feel self-conscious about having an android phone and say they are "waiting to get an iphone"
>men do what women want and women want easy to use, "fashionable" phones (see: green bubbles meme)

>>61587847
you should pronounce it like "hugh-eee" to impress normies into thinking it's a premium euro brand

>>61586870
lol we're talking ios here. ofc you cant change it

>>61584754
iPhones always appealed to people who didn't know jack about hardware and software in general. It's smooth, really smooth actually. They are good devices if you just want to get your shit done and that's about it. They are extremely limited devices compared to Android phones tho. And Apple is at the moment making huge efforts to stop all efforts for jailbreaking. While in the iPhone 4 and 5 era you would get a jailbreak working and unpatched for up to one month, right now it's usually betwen 1 and 5 days before an update bricking the jailbreaking process appears. It's sad but you gotta live with it.

Personally I got the S8+ for that display and I don't regret it one bit even tho people will now shit down my throat for choosing something that appeals to my taste and not theirs. Oh well, it's 4chin anyways.

It's just a phone dude. Not everyone wants to rice their device, most people just want apps and SMS. Why does that trigger you so much?
>tech illiterate
whatever you say wintoddler

>>61588193
>Mostly bullshit reasons
Ok let's do this: name a couple of better non-bullshit reasons for picking Android over iOS.
Also if you think that visual customization (ricing) is more important than security, you are the tech-illiterate one, just like people who put spoilers and stickers on cars there is no actual improvement performance wise. You just made it look different. Usually worse because a team of professional designers are working on iOS UI and I doubt some random NEET can design something better.

>>61584754
Try having sex with a woman sometime, it's worth it

>>61584800
Are there any adless weather apps for Android that compare to apple's weather app?

>>61584754
normies just want something that works, they dont give a shit about rooting or custom roms, they just want what their friends have, or the next one up to their friends...all about social standing and all that other normie shit.

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>>61593117
>normies just want something that works

So why would they buy exploding, bending, laggy iShit?

>>61590660
t. applel shill
not even in san fagcisco does an iphone get you laid

>>61593173
because exploding bending laggy shit looks way better next to their ipad on a hipster coffee table than a chinkshit phone and crappy chinktab.

all about the looks my friend, fashion before health to the normies.

>>61584754
It works well and they're supported for a long time. Android phones tend to be slow as shit Java monstrosities that are controlled by the carriers so they never receive updates in a timely manner (if at all).

Android is only usable with jail breaking and normal people don't want to waste their time.

>>61584765
>that navel

>>61593239
>what is xiaomi

>>61593264
Spyware infested chink shit that nobody in first world countries has even heard of.

ive had iphones since the 1st gen. theyre phones that can text and make calls and play my music. i dont use my phone for any other purpose. good enough battery life. tough phone. decent aesthetics. im 30 years old. i have a job. ricing my phone doesn't really strike me as fun. android might be better now than it was 7-8 years ago but that first impression has stuck with me and i have no intention of ever going back

>>61593431
that said. i miss the smaller form factor of the iphone. I havent looked at apples lineup since the 5S (my current). but i wish they made a top-shelf model 4" variant. i dislike the monster-tablet-phone hybrid meme a lot. i have an ipad, why would i want a shitty tablet phone?

>>61593431
youll find that most of the phone ricers are either too young or too shit with credit to get a contract phone so they need justification as to why they wont buy say an iphone or the latest android offering and instead go down the chink route like its edgy and cool..

>>inb4 iphone shill...i own an android

>>61593486
im european. we dont get phones for free. i just buy an iphone every 3-4 years when my old one breaks because i spill some beer on it or outright lose it. but you're probably right, i assume the people on /g/ who militantly hate apple are just poor // underage (overlap).

then again im an engineer. everyone of the engineers i work with uses apple hardware for development because of how nice OSX is. i dont get why /g/ hates apple. OSX is just *nix without the turbo autism

>>61588823
>Android stock
And Flyme looks better than ios stock lmao

>>61593431
Sounds like Xiaomi might be a better choice for you since you get a nice and efficient SD625 with a nice and large 4100mAh battery.

>>61593689
and how much of my personal information will be sent directly to china?

>>61593737
Basically all of it.

>>61593737
Basically just as much as Apple sends to the NSA.

>>61585248
http://tw.weibo.com/solaco

Both iPhone and Android fan boys are total cancer.

That said, I personally prefer android due to its support of apks/other directly downloadable files.

I've never had the green bubble meme be an issue in my relationships before. If that's an issue for you, stop dating materialistic, bratty cunts. Complete non-problem.

>>61584754
They think that if it is the most expensive, it must be the best and a luxury item. This also makes it a status symbol, which is probably why more females use them than males.

>>61587012
See, normal people don't want to fuck around with that shit. ootb iPhones are much better than Android phones hands down.

>>61595691
I'm also in the 'everything sucks' boat. At the end of the day, I don't care what you use, and none of them are optimal. Frankly though, my 50 year-old mother shouldn't be using an Android because she legitimately thought I'd get arrested for renting out space for a snapchat geotag.
I can't even begin to imagine the problems she'd invent for me to have to explain to her.

>>61595864
I feel like only paedophiles and children care about bubble's...

>>61584754
Conspicuous consumption

>>61593689
>no support and updates
Trashed right there

>>61596026
>No support and updates
Link that shit up, last time I checked Xiaomi support and updates was better than Apples.

>>61585504
install gentoo is on another level

>>61584955
@melvnin

>>61584754
The tldr is that it is a social status thing, because it is seen in music tv and alike by youth. Apple spends a lot on appearing in music videos, both with their headsets and phones.

Poor people don't want to look poor, so they take out loans to be able to afford iphones.

America is weird

>>61584800
Mt iPhone 7 screen doesn't scratch in my pocket after weeks. My GS8+ did after two days. It's a nice phone, features and everything, but not phenomenal in normal use.

>>61584754
>

Why would anyone want to buy a fucking Android instead?

iPhone is the ONLY GOOD PHONE.

The end.

>>61596872
>Gorilla glass 5
Lol

The galaxy s8 crushes the iPhone in every conceivable way. Anyone professing to work in technology and own a Apple is simply a God damned liar.

I don't get the head phone jack argument. If you have the money to waste on an iphone, shouldn't you also be expected to have enough to buy a Bluetooth headset?

>>61584760
>luxury, premium
>mass-produced

Pick one.

>>61584754
iMessage. Tech support. Accessories.
You NEETs wouldn't get it.

Sent from my iPhone

>>61586703
I can pick the colour of the bubbles on my phone (HTC).

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>>61597531
>Buying a phone that NEEDS tech support
>Not just buying an Android handset that just werks

>>61597500
That is their plan actually.
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMEF2AM/A/airpods

>>61596979
Nope.

>>61597746
>>Not just buying an Android handset that just werks
Ah! The unicorn?

>>61599505
Oh look a delusional macfag

>>61593255
i thought that too anon, whats wrong with it?

Seems like the matching thread for my question:
What fucking phone should I get, now that my blackberry Q10 has more and more issues even showing fucking websites, since no one does mobile sites anymore?

Android is datamining crap and I can't be bothered to fuck about with custom roms. I got other things to spend my time on.

So aplle seems like the obvious answer, but they have three issues:
>looks like shit
I dont like their current design at all. Just so boring and unimaginative. Also, way to big and thin. The 5S would solve this issue (still the best looking phone on the market), but that thing is how old now?
>that status symbol issue
I guess I'm above that, but still, combined with their easily recognizable desing and the fact that every cover leaves the apple visible, I'm feeling like I'm one of those "look at me!!! I got an iThingy!!!! I'm so rich and sophisticated!!!!" idiots, where everyone else realizes that they are poor, stupid fucks
>the price
I get that why you pay more than some random chink thing, but €800? Fuck no. I never paid more than €400 for something that I can easily loose or break every single day. And inb4 poorfag. I could buy 100 iphones, but that is only because I'm good with spending my money.

I guess I just get the BB key one and hate every single day on it.

>>61602446
You sound like a bitch.

>>61584819
>material design
>inconsistent icon shape
>inconsistent icon style
>widgets
>shit font
>file explorer app
>update app
>security app
>ugly home button
>premium

>>61603188
You sound like a whiny bitch.

>>61602446
>Android is datamining crap and I can't be bothered to fuck about with custom roms. I got other things to spend my time on.
It's not 2010. anymore. There are no hardware issues preventing devices from using a customer ROM. And guess which operating system provides you with a way to mitigate and make it harder to get datamined. And it's not like you're required to compile special apps for this. Why wouldn't you spend your time on researching which phones have good custom ROM support and making an informed decision?