• cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    18
    arrow-down
    7
    ·
    1 year ago

    Conversely, this is also because of Android owners with a chip on their shoulder taking everything as if it’s some affront to them.

    I’ve got a friend who always shows up with a phone at 5% and asks to borrow an iPhone charger. She’s not flexing, she’s just always on her phone and direct charge it.

    • HeartyBeast@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      15
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Note to phone users of all makes, I really couldn’t give a fuck what colour your chat bubble is.

    • Zeppo@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      arrow-down
      8
      ·
      1 year ago

      I think that’s the real reason. It’s been 10 years since I saw anyone think they’re special because they have an iPhone but still run into this concept that iPhone users think they’re elite. Perhaps that’s true for some tiny percentage of apple fanatics, but for the average person, it’s just the phone they prefer or the phone they have.

      I’ve been to bars and begged them humbly to help me charge my phone and never once have I thought “IPHONE, yeah! You heard me!”

      • Alto@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        17
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        Talking with younger family members, the iPhone elitism mentally is still alive and well in middle/high school. There’s a very good chance you simply aged out of of where people give a shit

        • Zeppo@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          7
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          I was already over 25 when the first iPhone was released, so maybe. I have heard about anti-“green bubble” discrimination. I guess I had a couple girlfriends in the past few years who thought it was lame that I had an Android phone at the time, but I don’t know what their reasons were. I mean, it was a Galaxy S9, pretty nice phone, so it’s not like I looked poor or something.

      • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        1 year ago

        The elitism is also alive whenever someone refers to their phone as an iphone.

        They are purposely spelling out the brand of their phone, as if that matters somehow.

        You got the same with Samsung users. They refer to their phone as a Samsung.

        It is a phone, or a smartphone. Giving free advertisement to a giant corporation will not grant you anything other than the contempt of those around you as it makes someone seem like a douche.

        Same with ipads, call them tablets.