Especially teens and college students
Source: i’m a college student
Some people need to justify their choice to overspend on something…
Only poor people think a phone is a sign of wealth
As a person with a nice income, an iPhone is a device that‘ll get security updates for 5-6 years. Meaning that I can just put away 30 bucks a month and get the replacement immediately. On Android I had to get a new one every 2-3 years to get consistent security updates. I switched to an iPhone X when it came out, now I have a 14 Pro and don’t to plan to get a new one anytime soon.
What? Samsung guarantees 7 years of security updates for most phones. Google does the same.
That’s relatively new, they probably haven’t looked in a while.
Since when do they do this? I switched in 2017 and back then 3 years was a luxury.
Samsung gives 7 years. Google gives 7 years as well. Your information is outdated.
It certainly is. The fold 2 released in late 2020 and that was when I stopped caring about tech and more about people not fucking up ther phone by sheer dumbness.
I think this comment highlights just why people still think iPhones are a status symbol. They don’t know any better or even anything of the market but they are sure confident about it.
IPhone will get 5-6 years of updates, but Android phones from Google, Samsung, and some others will get 7 6 years. Somehow that means the iPhone is better?
What next, they will claim that iPhone is private and Apple doesn’t spy on everything they do to sell them ads? Something that if they read Apple’s privacy policy quickly would find out is also wrong. Or then claim it is somehow more private that Android which can actually block most of the adware spying with apps like DuckDuckGo which are officially on the Play Store?
The user had outdated information regarding the security updates. That was true around 2015, but in 2025 its not the case anymore, they just never got updated on the new info because they already jumped ship to Apple.
Wont mean the phone will make it tell then with the original battery :(
I recently got a Pixel 9, really hoping it will last the full 7 years
Some Iphone users behave as if they’re in a cult. Worse, Apple treats customers without Iphones/Macs as inferior to their golden children even while selling services that don’t require Apple hardware.
I subscribed to Apple TV+ and dealing with the company was infuriating. Every single support rep instructed me to do something to solve a problem using my Iphone or Mac. The last straw was when I wanted to add another profile to my account and was told the company has made it impossible without Apple hardware. The rep actually told me to find someone with an Iphone to help. I cancelled Apple TV+ instead.
One member of the Iphone cult I know was going on and on about a problem she was having receiving calls. When I mentioned a relatively minor problem with my phone her immediate response was “That’s because you have Android.” It was comical.
People shallow enough to believe they’re superior because they own an Iphone aren’t worth being around anyway.
It’s expensive
Nobody will actually mind if you brag about how you bought a new phone. Also if you are not a rich person you having an expensive phone means you did something smart to “cheat the system.”
As an example I had an old coworker when I used to work at a warehouse and he would combo things like service provider sales to buy an iphone.
He did sound smart when explaining the roundabout way he got the phone despite making same money as us. And I don’t mind what other people chose to spend money on.
What I do mind is college students thinking macbooks are some “programmers’ laptops.”
I had to constantly hand-hold group members that think they can get away with not learning how to code and using AI for all the homeworks because they bought a mac and that makes them a good programmer anyway.
“But I thought the program should automatically wait for the threads on this line since it’s POSIX.”
Yes I love troubleshooting professor’s makefile for an OS I don’t have because you never learned your own laptop has a symlink from gcc to clang.
Cuz they’re overpriced? More money = More “exclusive.”
Because they’re teens
They don’t. You do.
explain how the people who always have the newest iPhone and show it off to all their friends DONT think it’s a status symbol
better yet explain how, I, the person with a several year old android phone who HATES apple considers an iphone more important than they do
It’s just a phone? I’d have an android or fairphone if my job didn’t have apple devices and apps I use all the time. Just makes sense to not need two sets of a lot of things.
If there was another decent mobile phone, the same size as the SE, I would seriously consider it.
ASUS Zenfone 10
Can’t unlock bootloader :(
Otherwise I’d be typing this comment on one right now. It’s the only otherwise-perfect device that I could find earlier this year. Why did they go out of their way to modify AOSP and lock everyone out of their own device…
Oh wow. That’s unfortunate. It’s an enthusiast phone. It’s a requirement.
I don’t. I just use the phone because it works well with my laptop. My previous one was all banged up and scratched, so I wouldn’t really call it a status symbol.
I don’t really care about status though. My friends are a bunch of misfits. If it bothers you that people are using something as a status symbol, perhaps you’re more concerned about status than you realize. I’d love to just advise you to stop caring about that but it’s not that easy. Status seeking is a pretty common, normal behaviour.
The only reason I have an iPhone is because our car only has Apple CarPlay installed (or whatever it’s called). I can never go back to mounting my phone on the dash and using the tiny phone screen for maps and music.
Hey internet brother. Don’t get locked in like that. There are USB devices that turns your car display into a full blown Android that is extremely customizable.
Example…??
I’m using ApplePie Rocket but I think that might only be available in Asia.
It’s is another one I found on Amazon. https://a.co/d/8Hpyvvf
Ty, I’ll investigate. Luckily the sound issue I had with my music was a silly, yet, simple fix. Right now everything’s working via USB.
Ya, the carplay Android systems are pretty awesome. I watch YouTube music and have a full android experience.
Not a youngster, but I would say because it’s a simple choice. Don’t have to think which brand sporting Android is better and definitely don’t have to worry about what custom ROM to install. Troubleshooting between different models can be a pain. People just want something that works out of the box without having to be an expert.
1 choice (mainly) vs (too) many choices.
I used Android since they first came out and not once did I ever needed to worry about a custom ROM.
Let’s be real and just say that Apple is doing anticompetitive things and not getting in trouble in the US yet.
I can’t think of a single mainstream android phone manufactuer that requires any expertise setting up their phone out of the box (for doing anything an iPhone can do).
You then have the option to install 3rd party software or a custom ROM but that is not required, just a bonus that isn’t available to Apple users.
I mean, don’t you just log into an account these days and it’s all there?
Certainly no more complicated than setting up an iPhone.
I don’t see it as a status symbol. Hate is a strong word… I could describe the process I go through just to save a jpeg, but I don’t have the patience. It’s simply the cheapest phone that I consider secure.
I’m a college student and I don’t feel this way at all. Maybe you’ll get some quick jokes about being a poor Android user sometimes but it’s mostly playful.
I convinced my college friend to try out Android and he likes his moto flip fold phone now.
Apple has cleverly made their phones a luxury symbol. In 2014, Apple hired the CEO of Burberry, Angela Ahrendts to be their Vice President. I believe this was the period when their Apple stores got a huge revamp to look all clean and minimalistic.
But in general, I don’t think anybody really gives a shit. Even less so the ones ones who actually know about technology.
I have never ever ever encountered a single person who treated their iPhone as a status symbol.
That’s nuts, you’ve never heard anyone tease about green chat bubbles? Never heard the joke “I don’t talk to poor people”? Didn’t see all that stuff blow up extra when the air pods came out?
you definitely have, they probably just didn’t mention it to you specifically
