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It has nothing to do with finances. You can buy a perfectly good used iPhone for less than $100. It has to do with taste. Not wanting to date a guy with an Android phone is like not wanting to date a guy because he's a Weaboo.



Based on what I’ve read on reddit/lemmy lately, some people still have the impression iPhones have an air of exclusivity from being more expensive. I agree that of course this isn’t true, though perhaps it was 12 years ago.

As far as your second point, well… I guess that’s precisely the attitude I was addressing. I definitely don’t agree that a phone brand is as strong an indicator of personality traits as the example you offer. If I was say, hiring a UI designer, I’d perhaps care about their choice of OS. For relationships, I don’t really care if they’re passionate about mobile phones. I understand that most of us on HN are keyed in to tech and UI. The average person, though, sees a phone as a utilitarian item, and owns one as a means to accomplish specific tasks. That way of thinking is like, if someone was a mechanic and thought poorly of a someone they met because they drove a Ford instead of a Mazda and the mechanic believed Mazda had more elegant engine designs.


> . . . some people still have the impression iPhones have an air of exclusivity from being more expensive.

iPhones: so exclusive that hordes of unemployed teenagers have them.


I think you should read the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson


What would that change my mind about? Would you mind explaining why you think I need to read it or what that’s related to?


Steve Jobs invented the iPhone


Oh, okay... thanks for pointing that out.


I highly recommend that book. It's a classic. It will answer your questions better than anyone on reddit.


Honestly, if I were a girl, and a guy was mansplaining to me why Android was better than iOS, I wouldn't want to date them either.




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