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.
If you think calling all iPhone owners ignorant, you’re not actually offering a “fair balance”. You’re just being biased and disrespectful of people choices.
“If you think calling all iphone owners ignorant” is an extremely funny way to start this statement
I made my point. What do iphone owners have beef with android owners for? For apparently having worse cameras? That’s a ridiculous reason to discriminate against someone. And if they are of that opinion, then that only reinforces my theory that most iphone owners are incensed by the corporate iconography and perceived in-crowd of Apple owners. A sheep.
To actually answer your question: The beef is with green (SMS) text bubbles. iMessage is closer to Discord chats; You can react to messages, edit messages, delete/unsend messages, see read receipts, send messages with spoiler text, draw doodles directly in the chat, send voice memos, send full quality images/videos, share iCloud links natively, send money directly via ApplePay, send animated emojis, stickers, and embedded gifs, etc… But as soon as an android user gets added to the chat, everyone is downgraded to regular SMS texts.
Yes, on the back end it’s largely Apple’s fault for refusing to play nicely with other brands. But that doesn’t change the fact that on the front end the result is a noticeably worse experience for Apple users every time they message an android. The “ugh, green text bubbles” reaction is because they’re missing a lot of features that are built directly into iMessage.
I’m not saying it justifies making dating decisions based on a person’s phone choice. I’m dating someone who has an android, because why wouldn’t I? I’m not dating her for her phone. But some people may use those extra features more than I do, and may end up annoyed every time they have to text that person.
It’d be like if one person in a Discord group chat decided they didn’t want any of the nice features of Discord… So Discord just disabled those features for the entire group chat. Rather than not displaying them to that one person, it just turns them off entirely for the entire chat. So now nobody can use them, even if they wanted to. Naturally, the other people in the group chat may get a little annoyed every time they want to send a gif or react to a text, but can’t.
I’m a woman in the U.S. and I’ve never had a friend ditch a guy for using a different phone than them.
This is either fake, limited to the younger generation, infrequent enough that I’ve never encountered it, or regional
I know men who have a hard time getting dates, but phone choice has never been brought up as to why they’re rejected
(Frankly, if someone rejects anyone for what phone they are using, the rejecting-party’s clearly not worth pursuing)
Actually I encounter this routinely as a work issue. My work requires a lot of co-ordination of labor via cellphone and some of the basic features Apple has - regular old group messages for instance don’t show me, an android user, if a text is part of a group message and doesn’t allow me control over the response. Depending on my software update it either sends to everyone who was tagged in the original message or no one but the original recipient but I won’t know until I send it. That means any message I send back leaves me open to communication errors.
Also a whole bunch of stuff is proprietary, facetime, airdrop and so on meaning the ease of sharing information to me because of my hardware can be a factor in whether I get hired or not. This is actually purposefully done by Apple, they create convenience only between their users so it creates social pressure by causing android users to be routine social nuisances. They basically cause all these little micro fractures of actual peer to peer relationships on purpose to sneakily force android users to give up and buy their shit or else people have to be mindful of an android users limitations the same way you might have to adapt your behaviour to someone’s disability or allergy… By taking on the cognitive work of understanding and adapting to someone else’s limitations.
If you’ve ever seen someone throw a fit because they had to pick a restaurant with a gluten free option you know certain people aren’t great at doing anything that inconveniences them even a little.
You sound like a mouth breathing moron buddy. What if someone really cares about privacy? Apple has demonstrated over and over again they will work hard to safeguard users security and privacy - Google does not care about privacy at all, and they only care about security when it doesn’t conflict with their need to track and monetize you at the moment
No I’m serious, I’ll take apple for privacy and security anyday, everyday.
Nobody actually does this.
I’ve seen a few articles about this topic, and apparently there is a fairly significant difference. It seems so shallow.
https://www.androidauthority.com/study-iphone-dating-matches-3190357/
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.
There are lots of reasons for using a smartphone beyond avoiding engaging in conversation though. Looking things up, sharing contact info, planning another date, paying for the meal/event, even going to a movie can almost require an app.
I’m not saying these would be the majority of the time or anything, but not using your phone whatsoever is more of a limitation than you’d think.
Despite the boomer energy, I’m not actually one.
It’s only been 2 years since my last “first date”. I know the world moves pretty fast, but I’d be shocked to discover that in the last 24 months the world went from “can be traversed without looking at your phone” to not.
I guess I’d turn it around on you: NOT using your phone is NOT as much of a limitation as you’d think.
Also, so many stupid things we do on our phone are things that could be an interaction with your date instead. What WAS that movie with Brendan Fraser with The Rock? Where IS that restaurant with no lights and all the servers are blind? What time is it? What direction is the river from here? What nationality is Santa Claus? How far north would we have to go so that Zombies would be frozen solid for at least 3 months per year? The point of a date is to attempt to form a bond, and it’s the shared journey that gets you there, not the successful and efficient completion of independent tasks.
Obviously, if the only way to pay for the meal is to tap your phone, tap your phone. The PHONE isn’t the enemy. It’s that you’re your own enemy, and that your nervousness and awkwardness is going to try to push you into the comfort of your phone for reasons that you REALLY don’t need to be on your phone for. Embrace the awkwardness and as much as physically possible lean on your date for anything you imagine your phone can do.
Oh, I don’t disagree, people opt-out of being present in favor of their phones far too often. I’m just reminding us of the context of hiding your social, financial, and often legal, sci-fi multi-tool. Reducing usage and eliminating usage can be very different things for many people.
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.
But you see, you had genders swapped here. It’s OK for a woman to show hers, just don’t show yours (/s, obviously)
/s but not really. Men aren’t supposed to have standards when it comes to women according to many women
In your situation, it had nothing to do with a phone, haha. Swell on you for not judging her though.
I take it with a grain of salt because he’s a humorist, but in Dave Barry Does Japan, his wife tells him at one point, “I heard three farts today. It’s okay here.” I haven’t read that book in decades and I still remember that line because I thought, how nice to live in a place where people don’t hide basic bodily functions.
My Lineage OS phone is much more secure than your dumbass iPhone.