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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?
I got a carrier unlocked Pixel 7 a year ago and it was like $500... I will probably get at least 5 years use out of it. There are definitely "premium" Android phones with special form factors or enhanced features. Really to classify every device running Android as the same is ridiculous. It'd be like saying a Volkswagen TDI Golf and a Sherp ATV are the same because they both run diesel engines.
To your point about features... there are vendors taking risks and therefore the newer and better features tend to be available in some Android phone first. I remember walking around turning TVs on and off with my Galaxy S4 to the amazement of Apple normies. Many of us also had wireless charging like 2 years before Apple customers even knew what that was.
Aww, don't get a carrier locked phone!
Being locked to one company like that sounds like a nightmare, for all those 5 years? Not for me, I bought an unlocked pixel 5 a few years ago and mostly use prepaid or an unlimited plan from one of the smaller companies, can't go wrong with the freedom to move around to find the best price and service.
They said carrier unlocked lol
How did I read that as locked? My bad bother
I meant my phone is unlocked. I could move carriers if I want.
I'm surprised you didn't realise that iPhone is status symbol. There was like a map of New York City overlaid with dominant phone types in an area. Richer Manhattan mostly has iPhones while the poorer area like Queens has Android.
Sure, you can get brand new android devices for under $100. You can also get Android devices that cost more then iPhones. It's a made up status symbol. Like airpods. Airpods suck and look like crap hanging out of someone's ear. But because it's Apple it's "cool". It's practically a cult.
Yeah, there are just as expensive Android phones, but it has many different brands with varying reputation. iPhone on the other hand is just one brand and there is an already established image of it as being high class. Precisely as you said, richer folks buy expensive iPhone simply because of the brand, not out of practical reason as to why the item is expensive like labour and material cost. A lot of the times, the prices are made out of sheer subjective perception. Showing off having an iPhone signals to the date "I'm rich, fuck me."
Yeah, I dont buy an android phone because its cheaper, but because it has the features that I want.
(And I dont get locked into some stupid ecosystem)
Did you just use high price like it was a pro and not a con?
No, it's an argument people make that Android is cheap.
He wasn't talking about pros or cons.