Apple

This is only a US and Canada Problem.

'American Teenagers"

important distinction because the rest of the world don't give a fuck about what colour your text appear on iMessage

Blaming an iMessage blue tick is such a massive over-simplification.

Its about what Apple stands for as a brand. They only push luxury, premium products. They never compromise. They avoid ever looking cheap, whether thats hardware, software, letting users make all their app icons pink and star shaped, whatever.

Its also about what Android is perceived as. The name is literally a synonym for a robot which already is a bit geeky. Theres a million shitty android phone brands/types for every one good one.

There is also not a single android phone released last year that ticks every box. S23U has a pen and is pretty huge. Not for everyone. S23+ has a lower res screen. Pixel camera module looks weird Onelus is too niche, again weird camera module

And people complain apple arent innovating? They don’t have to. The competition is shooting itself in the foot, every single year.

Apple has definitely won the branding wars in tv/movies. You can easily compile references to their tech like facetime, screen sharing/imessage (a couple of movies and an full episode of modern family used it as the main vehicle to tell the story), or even Live Photos (which seems like a big reach, but a whole episode of The Other Two was based on it). I wonder if things like that have an effect on teens' view of apple v. every other tech company

I know the bubble color plays some part but it extends to Airdrop, Facetime, iCloud features, etc.. that are Apple exclusive.

No kid wants to be the one that tells them they can't Facetime with their group, etc or do be like "Hey uh can you email me those pics dude". Then that goes further, how Airpods work and are a "fashion" symbol, Apple Watch, etc.

Part of the issue with Android, coming from someone who was an Android user from 2009-2021 is that it lost it's identity. Instead of striving to be a different solution, that offered different, better functionality it followed a lot of what Apple did. So it's now gotten a reputation of being a second rate clone.

Like, the original Droid commercial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e52TSXwj774

It listed off at the time serious things the iPhone wasn't doing like flash, high res video, high res screen, apps, lots of stuff.

Obviously most of that isn't relevant anymore but outside of the better zoom on a Samsung I can't think of a single feature I'd want from recent Android competition.

It's almost like all of the things that the anti-Apple bandwagon complains about are the things that everybody else likes about Apple. Simplicity. Design. Device interconnectivity. Social features that only work with other iPhones.

Call these things "gimmicks," all you want. It's not a gimmick if it works.

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