Things like the cool new lemmy apps and the fold phones like the Galaxy Z Flip make me really want to change but it’s tough.
Any so much of a mention of leaving iOS for android around my normie friends or family leads to weirdly aggressive responses. They want to by able to react my messages and rename the group chats in their normie iMessage. They want to be able to stalk me with their normie Find My Friends app. They react like taking that away from them is basically stabbing them in the back. It’s like I just told a hardcore Trump supporter that Biden is #1 to their face. Normies are brainwashed.
It feels like I’m trying to leave a cult. It’s like I’m trying to leave the Mormon religion. It’s like I’m trying to get off drugs when everyone I know uses.
I just want you techies to know I’m jealous of your freedom. Maybe one of these days I can get clean.
What’s a normie?
The only people I see that have iPhones are the ghetto people that have no job. I can spot one when they walk in the door to my store. They look like a combination of gangsta and homeless. I will comment to whoever I’m working with and bet that they will want to pay with their iPhone. I’m usually right, and half the time they’re transaction is declined.
It’s just a cellphone. You’ll live.
I don’t understand posts like this, tbh. I live in the US where iOS is predominant, and never have I ever been made fun of or “shamed” for using Android devices outside of some occasional “hey iPhones are cool, you should get one. Android phones are kind of lame”. What is this bizarro world that people like OP are living in? Is it a teen thing?
I don’t have much to contribute to the conversation except to say I don’t have any idea why you’re getting downvotes. I’ve never used any iOS device (and in fact I’m a late adopter of smartphones in general) but I’ve heard some of why people prefer iOS over Android. Mostly just that Android’s got a reputation among some folks for being “poor people phones.” Meanwhile, I had no understanding of the appeal of the walled garden kind of locked down approach that governs iOS (at least a little) more than Android. It’s interesting to me to understand a bit better, and this post did that for me.
Yes, Apple is trendy among most crowds. It’s like what black champion sweatshirts were to college kids.
But I will agree it’s perfect for the low to average technical background person. You don’t have to worry about a password manager, a decent one is build in, you don’t have to worry about a messaging app, a good one is built in. I believe the term is “it just works”. There’s no way I’d suggest something different for say my Mom, it’s perfect for her. With a little tutoring she has secure passwords sets for all her sites and did it all herself. I doubt she would of been able to accomplish that with any other system.
But then that leads to the problem that she likes it so much that she doesn’t want me to change and leave her ecosystem that she’s so proud of figuring out lol.
